Certain Quotes

I think that you think that a certain something is not all that it could be, when, in fact, it is all that it should be, and more!

You probably have to trust that your work is following certain themes and certain movements, but then the rest is a kind of piecing together so that the whole becomes larger than the parts.

When you reach a certain age in life, time becomes more important than money, and I think that happens in your 50s.

If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.

Certain days I think definitely because we went in there and we got Saddam and that was our mission. On other days, we lost so many lives and so many brothers and sisters...on that aspect, no.

There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Obviously Feministing is kind of a women's space in a certain way, even though we have a lot of male readership and people who don't identify as women.

I love zombies. I don't know how else to answer that... I have trouble falling asleep, so there are certain scenarios I use in my head to relax. I find sniping zombies very relaxing.

If you have a great many desires, you will gradually eliminate them one by one, until you allow certain desires to dominate and the others to die away.

There's a certain level of realness in Philly. You know, just - people are people. You know, it doesn't matter who you are or who you think you are, you're just a person in Philly.

I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.

There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

I think there's an unnatural amount of social pressure on women, particularly mothers, to conform to certain standards of behavior, particularly in regard to our children.

But I am dead certain--ba-dump-bump-ching--that I'm the first guy to lead an army of spirits in an assault from the spirit-world side...and had them start off screaming, "BOO!

To run any system, you've got to grow your personnel and your players have to have a certain skill set.

There's plenty of anecdotal evidence that most champions are born into certain environments and encouraged early. Then, later on, they might get some assistance from their federations.

It seems almost inherent in human beings that when you are thriving for a certain level of spirituality, you tend to reject clothes, and the implied need to hide yourself.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

There's a certain balance between finding an opportunity to do what you really enjoy and getting caught up in the flattery of people wanting you to do things.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

Unlike sciences, literature as art relies on societal acceptance of a certain vocabulary.

There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.

Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.

There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

After a certain age, you get the face you deserve.

My books have come many years apart and each one seems to reflect a period of experience. Ending the book is like putting a period on a certain movement. Interior and external - both.

Sold my house in LA, packed myself up and moved to New York, not knowing anybody. Friends are very hard to make after a certain age.

When one culture has the big guns and the other has none, there is a certain predictablity about the outcome.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

Is it because they are so comfortable, they already know what the other is thinking? Or is it because after a certain point, there is simply nothing left to say?

A man should live his life a certain way not because of some divine authority, but because of a personal moral obligation to himself and others.

Life was all about being in a certain place, at a certain time.

There are certain things I do not talk about.

The legal system works really well, if you communicate a certain way. But if you don't, it all goes to Hell in a handbasket really quickly.

I think when you do radio there's a certain amount of freedom that when you walk in and sit down and turn the mic on, it's you. It's all you.

We put on certain music when we're going to a party, right? You have that playlist of songs that you listen to before you get pumped up to go out.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

The recipe for any character is always very interesting, as far as what doses of certain qualities you want.

The idea of a youth-based society that you live in for a certain time and then you no longer live anymore is an interesting idea for a movie, but you need young people that people want to go see.

We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness; anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.

To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.

Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.