Certain Quotes

People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.

It is certain that most who concentrate upon achievement miss life.

Institutions of knowledge, of foresight and care, such as medicine, help to support the political power. It's also obvious, even to the point of scandal, in certain cases related to psychiatry.

The fault we admit to is seldom the fault we have, but it has a certain relationship to it, a somewhat similar shape, like that of a sleeve to an arm.

My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving

Tis easier to make certain things legal than to make them legitimate.

That's another thing about being a certain age that I've noticed: I try as much as possible not to look in the mirror.

Obviously, I think being vegan is important. But no one should judge anybody. I'm not a dictator and I don't expect anyone to be any certain way.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

What does it mean to be too black for Hollywood? It's self-explanatory. Hollywood has certain kinds of blacks that they like.

I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

Writing a screen play with a group of collaborators is like the Lennon McCartney collaboration .... sometimes one or two people do more than others on certain parts of the process and vice versa.

I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

Certain names always awake certain prejudices.

A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

The world is shaped by different people with certain personalities that come out of different upbringings.

I think if we ban certain religions, if we censor the Internet, I think that at that point the terrorists will have won.

You do what you know is good, because it's good, and then you have a certain peace of mind, saying, you've been an activist in a constructive way.

There are characters in [punk] that do deliberately go as far as they can in certain kind of taboo areas.

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper.

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can.

Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Twilight is about getting older and relationships - not about a murder mystery. It's about love when you reach a certain age; nothing is in primary colors.

I am not certain of the hereafter. Frankly, I'm not all that certain of the here.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

There's a certain comfort in being in supporting roles because it's not all on you.

We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.

I wasn't certain of anything anymore, except that New Orleans was a faithless friend and I wanted to leave her.

Its so very important as to what a child watches on TV. I feel for every parent that knows this, and cares, because they only have control of the childs viewing to a certain point.

College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, umless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.

That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

Growing in poverty imparted a certain DNA in the life of their children.

Certain countries are dumping nuclear waste directly into the ocean, making fish flesh even more poisonous.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

Certain people just go home and veg out, certain people go travel the world and certain people are like, "Screw this, I'm going to work the entire time."

I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

The French have the reputation of being arrogant. I don't think it's arrogance but a certain authenticity.

I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

You definitely have to be focused at certain times in your life and in your career, but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can do. Then you just have to chock it up to fate.

I'm constantly changing and evolving so I don't abide by just one certain style. I like to look at my personal style as an extension of my mood.