Certain Quotes

With Superman, there are certain limitations for an actor. You can't go past certain boundaries because then you cease to be what the character is.

To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure.

He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.

Only what is thought, said, or done at a certain rare coincidence is good.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

At a certain season of our life we are accustomed to consider every spot as the possible site of a house.

The theories and speculations of men concern us more than their puny accomplishment. It is with a certain coldness and languor that we loiter about the actual and so-called practical.

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

It is a striving to attain the best. To throttle it would mean to stop all progress. Certain men do not need to compete. They are pioneers.

A certain amount of taxes is of course indispensable to carry on essential government functions. Reasonable taxes for this purpose need not hurt production much.

The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

At a certain point, I became a kind of musician that has tunnel vision about jazz. I only listened to jazz and classical music.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

This divineness had that in it which, though commanding worship, at the same time enforced a certain nameless terror.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

One thing for certain you will not ever hear from me is praise for dictators and strongmen who have no love for America.

I do think, you know, you don't have to have 30 billion, but you have a certain level of freedom.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal.

Maybe there is no objective experience, but there is a certain way of interacting with all the subjective experiences.

If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

Whether it's from the books or the films, there are some people that will have a very fixed idea in their head. You're not going to match that. At a certain point, you have to accept that.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.

We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he apears.

I asked Tyson Chandler who has to customize everything because he's 7-foot-1. He's said, always call a designer. You want to wear certain stuff but people don't make it.

I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.

There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.

Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

Of course you have to create the conditions of a certain belief. And maybe ignoring something that you don't want to see, at least for the time of the shooting.

Cities have a psychogeographical relief, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes which strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones

Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy.

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.