Certain Quotes

I have some memories of certain things that happened in high school when I was stoned out of my mind, but I talked with other people about them, and I trusted the aggregated memories.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

It takes certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

I do love perusing the dictionary to find how many words I don't use - words that have specific, sharp, focused meaning. I also love the sound of certain words. I love the sound of the word pom-pom.

Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are.

Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies.

My father ran for Congress in 2004, and I got a sense that there is no way to achieve much success without a certain amount of compromise.

in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

I believe that there are certain things that could be taken care of that you don't need a strong political background in.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

All fiction has to have a certain amount of truth in it to be powerful.

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

In this world, only winter is certain

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

I often wonder if there are certain areas of real life that are roped off, with a sign saying, "Art, don't come in here." But that's maybe a deeper question.

If you're going to make an emotional connection with somebody, whether it's in the story or in the world, there's a certain amount of self-acceptance that is required.

Whether you're eighteen or sixty, in a certain way, whatever you know is valid.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

In a certain way, we're always toggling back and forth between the absolute and the relative, if that makes sense.

You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it.

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon each other.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

A good run adds a little bounce to my step. I get a certain amount of self-esteem from it.

I think, to a certain extent the economy and these decisions I made to protect the country matter a lot.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.

Only one thing is certain: if pot is legalized, it won't be for our benefit but for the authorities. To have it legalized will also be to lose control of it.

Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

We all do things at certain points that are contradictory. Some things, it's a smaller contradiction, and other things it's larger.

It's certain that the death of an actor can be on a television screen playing the same thing every week.

There is only one thing certain and that is that nothing is certain

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

Nothing is certain by uncertainty.

There is a certain poetic value, and that a genuine one, in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.

We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea.