Certain Quotes
I think it's difficult to be honest about certain aspects of my work without acknowledging that I have experienced or felt or questioned certain of the themes in the books.
Thomas Jefferson spoke of certain truths as self-evident. He did not say that these truths were self-explanatory or that they were self-operating.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness
I won from Mr. Jeffries because I outclassed him in every department of the fighting game. Before I entered the ring I was certain I would be the victor. I never changed my mind at any time.
There are certain things that words on paper can never make a crime, .. There are certain acts that by sheer common sense are not crimes.
Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
...in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness -- faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain.
It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.
I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.
Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But what is interesting for me is how many, how many things you see repeated.
Everything I write, I read out loud. It has to sound a certain way. It has to look a certain way on the page.
What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.
Devotion is not a concept, not a certain kind of ideology, not a certain kind of act, it is the agent of dissolution.
At a certain point, I got used to writing on demand. I developed a habit of writing like I hired myself! I also like to write about things that affect me emotionally.
When you take on a project, you have to be certain that you can make the best version of whatever it is youre given.
That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.
When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.
I don't believe stores should stock clothes below or above a certain weight. They should be made to feel uncomfortable when they go in and can't find a size.
It's foolish to go through life bemoaning the fact that you can't have this or that. Twaddle! You can omit certain foods and still enjoy eating.
Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.
Certainly there are bubble-like valuations of certain companies, but I don't think anyone out there believes that we're going to go back to doing business the way we used to do business.
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
I go to my Room and I drink and I smoke some cigarettes and I think about her. I drink and I smoke and I think about her and at a certain point blackness comes and my memory fails me.
It's not enough just to be a mother. It's not only the social pressure on mothers by certain kinds of feminism and other sources. There is also economic pressure on them.
I think a lot of the history we've read up to this point, some of it is just off. It's written with the same prejudice that certain networks have when they report the news of the day.
Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.
I treat every show, every production, like its own individual human organism that's grown up in a certain way, and they all have crazy habits and do different things.
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist.
I'd say the biggest relationship is the repetition of certain themes. I don't want to say "topics," but certain points of interest.
A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.
I don't function well in certain aspects of society, and you can read into that what you will.
It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.
Children and even adults, when they like certain athletes, they can tell you about their batting average, about where they came from.
There's no director who wants to portray cheese puffs with a certain color that's going to make or break the commercial, in his opinion. We don't have to do that, so I don't miss it at all, really.
A certain amount of housekeeping also goes on in my poems. I wash doorknobs, do dishes, mop floors, patch carpets, cook.
A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.
I've occasionally been wrong about certain things, which is in a way more delightful than being right.
You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock - that you've still got it.