Certain Quotes

I've never had a good game plan. At a certain point, making independent films became more and more appealing to me because I like freshness and originality.

To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull the rug out, but you also want to keep things fresh and keep changing it up.

Vialli's absolutely certain that he knows one way or the other whether he'll score or not.

An artist needs a certain amount of turmoil and confusion.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

I can confirm, although I am not certain, that we have very good reason to believe that tomorrow is Monday.

God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make yourself happy.

I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.

I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive.

There are certain tenets set in place for all different types on genres. For thrillers, women usually die first.

I heavily overinvest in recruiting. I have an understanding with certain search firms that if you find someone great, don't wait until there's a job opening - send him to me.

I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.

There is a certain tendency on the part of some Americans to treat the UN as a multilateralism à la carte where you pick and choose where it suits you and when it doesn't suit you, you pull back.

Generally speaking, you only put someone on paid leave if you're pretty certain that they might be terminated from the company once you do your investigation.

We all inhabit our lives, in different ways to some degree. We see ourselves a certain way, and based on how we see ourselves, that's how we see the world.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

Music is an emotion and it makes you feel a certain way. Some songs make you want to dance, while some make you think. Some songs are positive, while some people see those songs as negative.

Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

Each of us when he appears before his fellows is clothed in a certain dignity. But every man knows what unconfessable things pass within the secrecy of his own heart.

I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be.

Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.

Chess players are madmen of a certain quality, the way the artist is supposed to be, and isn't, in general.

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

Certain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.

In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure.

The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.

There are certain standards, like the protection of minorities and the improvement in their lives that have to be improved now.

Certain I am, that Christian Religion does no where allow Rebellion.

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

The music has had a certain quality that people like just because it's a real true expression of how we are as musicians.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

I don't know why certain people shine for others. I don know why you and not someone else

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed.

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

I don't want to do anything to embarrass my family or my church because the town that I come from is so small. There are certain things that I just can't be part of because of my foundation.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

I think there are certain ways that people are always themselves, but I do think people change

My writing is progressing slowly, but at least it's moving forward. I'm sure that's the case. The only problem is that I'm never absolutely certain that what I've written is any good.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.