Certain Quotes

Everything that I do has a certain mechanical logic to it, and follows my definition of design--which is function with cultural content.

The impact of television on our culture is. . . indescribable. There's a certain sense in which it is nearly as important as the invention of printing.

A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, I would say.

I think that's part of the creative process to disagree about certain ideas. But we also agree just as much as we disagree, in the band, I would say.

My tendency as an actor is, when there's a certain energy, I feel a challenge to match it, to come up to that plate and play on the same level.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

You get into habits. Ways of being with certain people.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

If I can be writing, I can take a certain amount of control when so much around me is upsetting.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

You know, I'm cursed with morals. I was raised a certain way. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was raised by wolves.

That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities.

It was cool to feel this global electronic thing happening. But it just got to be too much at a certain point.

I liked it when there was a certain amount of people who did not like what I was doing. If anything, I thought that was a positive thing.

You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said.

If I'm interviewing someone I need to know everything about them - I do these massive spider diagrams. Everything under different categories, and certain questions in other categories.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Within the brain's most secret cells, A certain lord chief justice dwells, Of sov'reign power, whom one and all, With common voice we reason call.

When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

[R]ights do not belong to men simply as men, but because of the superior qualities, physical, intellectual, moral or political, which are characteristic of certain individuals or races.

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

A certain amount of danger is essential to the quality of life.

It's rare that I'm working on a movie and that's the case. My goal is the same, ultimately at a certain point you give it to the director and their vision. You're there to support that vision.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

I am certain that the safest way to defend your character is never to say a word about it.

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

I might be at a point where I don't want to go with a genre convention but I have to produce some pages. It's hard work. And it requires you learn certain skills.

I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I've always been a little skittish about death. On certain days I'm okay with it. On other days it's like, "Really? I have to? No, man, not me."

I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

I think that there are certain feelings and things you can convey in a simple form that people can see and understand.

That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue.

Musicians have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

When you're not in the game, you can watch. Certain players have mannerisms, and they do the same things repetitiously.

There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.

Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.