Certain Quotes

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

In certain ways, I'm not very different than I was when I was a teenager.

You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

Accept certain inalienable truths.

Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

There is nothing as dull as an intellectual ally after a certain age.

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children.

Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it's like, 'What, is he just making that up?'

Doctor Strange is an origin story so there's a certain room for me improving as well as the character improving.

I now had enough faith not only to believe there were answer, but to feel certain that those answers would become apparent at some point in the future.

I loved English literature - if didn't it would have been hard - but I had to learn it myself. I remembered ways to repeat words, to put more emphasis on certain lines.

A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.

Nothing in the world is certain except for death and taxes.

Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

I had many books and I had dreams of all kinds. Dreams in which were in a certain sense, how to say, easy to make because the near future was always extremely threatening.

Names have power. In certain cultures, just speaking a man's name gives you mastery over him.

It's true that I am not from the south and I have a certain reserve. I take time to get close to, and I don't immediately throw my arms round someone. But it is more a question of style.

I very strongly supported the agreement which makes certain that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon.

We have to invest in our kids, we have to invest in our communities, we have to create jobs. We have to make certain that kids are not dropping out of school and hanging out on street corners.

Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

In considering irregular appearances, there are certain very natural mistakes which must be avoided.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

I do not believe that I am now dreaming, but I cannot prove that I am not. I am, however, quite certain that I am having certain experiences, whether they be those of a dream or those of waking life.

All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never.

Do not feel certain of anything.

When you get a certain amount of media attention, I think people are like, "Where's your other album?"

We have to stop this idea that we have to be a certain shape.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

It's easy for people to grow up in our society believing that certain lifestyles are risk free when they certainly are not.

Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure.

The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Somewhere between the intellectual idea of why we're attracted to certain things and the pragmatic reality is some form of ever-evolving truth.

Being overly identified with [a certain period of time] becomes a noose around your neck, and people don't want you to grow up, they don't want you to change, they don't want you to evolve.

Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.