Certain Quotes

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

When I write, I picture the characters a certain way in my head, and they're not like any actor or actress. It's almost hard for me to let go of my ideas as to the way they look.

I do like touring but my life sort of starts to fall apart under it after a certain point. So you just have to stop. And it's hard to.

Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

There may be certain genres that men dominate, but fiction not so much. The question of prizes is tricky because there are so many prizes.

As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.

I can celebrate food anytime. I love cheese. When I crave a certain food, I just eat it.

It takes a certain amount of courage to let the field lie fallow until you have something to say.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

One never knows when one is old for certain.

Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

At a certain level, great actors who are successful actors don't have to worry about it. They can just go for it because they believe in themselves.

The biggest thing is to continue to do what you do. A lot of people, when they get to a certain level, start thinking about it too much and they change what they do.

It is a paradox that in our time of drastic rapid change, when the future is in our midst devouring the present before our eyes, we have never been less certain about what is ahead of us.

When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Each of us is affected by what happens to the other. Just as our movement interact on the field, so our lives interact to a certain degree. This is what is so great about being a member of a team.

I've always used Old English in certain songs.

A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.

I call myself a character actor all my life. I've done a certain amount as a leading man, but character actors in my estimation - it's a lost art these days.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.

It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

Certain kinds of intimacy emerge on a phone call that might never occur if you were sitting right next to the other person.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

I think we really made a mistake in separating the Internet from capitalism in a certain way that is bad for our country.

The idea that a film is created in the editing room - it's only a certain kind of movie that's made in the editing room and it's not one that I really want to see.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

Today I blame only certain agents for my long eclipse as a public entertainer.

Whenever we encounter a human being in such a way that we feel absolutely certain of the infinity of that person's worth and the eternity of his or her life, that is Easter.

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

When you refuse to fight guys because you say you are better than them, that is not really being the best. If I could just fight certain fighters that fit my style, I would look great in all of them.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: "She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

When somebody walks into a room they give off a certain kind of vibe or whatever and at that point that's how you're going to cast them.

There's certain things I try to avoid, as an actress, just to keep my world from being as narrow as it could be.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.