Certain Quotes
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
I very much admire Sheryl Sandberg for what she has done. I really do. But Sandberg's narrative also implies: "Well, it's your fault if you couldn't make it." There is a certain injustice in that.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
There are certain early plays of mine that I really don't like, but I can't imagine going back and fixing them. I would be totally incapable of it. I'm not in the head of the characters anymore.
Music is a great vehicle for communications, and I have a certain platform. I have an opportunity and I have to take it.
It is the same with understanding as with eyes; to a certain size and make, just so much light is necessary, and no more. Whatever is beyond brings darkness and confusion.
When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.
A man who is supposed to have caused a disturbance between two married people, in a certain rank of life, does generally receive a certain meed of admiration.
I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.
Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during a review.
There are certain times you rattle the press's cages, and other times you don't, and you have to be discerning about it.
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.
I was fortunate to be connected with bands who later became pioneers for certain genres of music scenes. And my art went along with them for that ride and became associated with it.
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.
Once you've seen certain things, you can't un-see them, and seeing nothing is as political an act as seeing something.
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.
Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.
I think play must have been invented so we wouldn't go mad thinking about certain things.
I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.
The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.
Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
When you decide to follow a certain path, you should follow it to the end and not be diverted from it for personal reasons.
I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment.
It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.
The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.
I really believe that no matter how old people get, they tend to change in certain ways depending on how people treat them - they change their colors.
I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God.
But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.
My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids.
I think at a certain age I became conscious of the power of words. And it was fairly late. I was kind of a goofball - but I was always subconsciously thinking about issues.
I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.
You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.
One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.
I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen.
At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground.
There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office.
I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time.
I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them.
There has to a certain responsibility, whether it's TV news, online news, to sort out opinion from fact.
When you're working with friends, I think there's a certain sensibility that you share, and it's easy to coordinate your ideas and work together to bring them in a cohesive way.
There is something in us that loves certain disasters and the fever of this moment and surrendering to that.