Certain Quotes

If you are a novelist of a certain type of termperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist except he was a Realist.

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.

It is one thing to recognise certain potentially useful affinities, and another to act on them.

There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.

Anytime a church squabbles over minor things you can be certain they do not have a clear picture of what they need to be.

I swear and it comes off a little angry, no matter how funny I'm trying to do it. If I use certain words with a certain intensity, it's like 'Whoa whoa whoa, buddy buddy!'

I think there are certain subjects I don't want to tackle, that I don't think I could do a good job with. I don't think I'd be good with... broad comedy? I don't know. Maybe I would.

Certain kinds of clichés are the narcotics of the middle class.

We are still too close to the birth of the universe to be certain about its death.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

I can talk about feelings, but I can't talk about why this chord on top of this chord sounds cool to me. It just makes me feel a certain way, and I like it.

In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year.

I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

It's one thing to be certain, but you can be certain and you can be wrong.

Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

My fathers a clergyman, and he was in the mission field for a certain amount of time in British Honduras, which is now Belize.

There are certain people that when they ask you to do a film, you just say, "Where and when?"

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

It takes a certain brashness to attack the accepted economic legendsbut noneat all toperpetuatethem. So theyare perpetuated.

There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

I see ethical considerations as having a certain priority in our interactions - passing judgment on our political and legal processes.

Drawing a funny animal, you don't need a lot of detail to make it work. But to draw a sexy girl, there's certain things you can't leave out.

When you make these films, they become like your children. But at a certain point, they don’t belong to you anymore; they belong to the world.

There's a certain confidence that comes with being sure about the way the world works.

Sometimes I start just on the piano with a melody or musical idea that kind of leads me to certain lyrics.

It's important for us to fight for certain changes that need to happen. And one of those issues that I really care about is education. But also another one is incarceration.

You can't really walk anywhere. Where are you going to go? Everything closes at a certain hour and it's a highway with bars on it; that's what it is.

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.

I don't have a great intellect, and I can't compete with people who do. I feel certain things. And all I know, and all I can do, is what I feel.

To a certain extent in Hollywood you're a product, and your product is whatever sells the most, and whatever sells the most is whatever the public likes to see you do - if anything.

If the majority holds some thing of value, you can be certain it has none.

I love having played Walter because I suppose any actor brings a certain aspect of their own personality to their work, and I had a fairly broad canvas to paint on with the different versions.

Jerusalem meant one thing for Jesus: certain death.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson.

I don't see myself as experimenting in any conscious way, it's perhaps that certain books require different densities of language.

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

We have a democracy within the bounds of a constitution which provides certain guarantees related to the basic humanity of every person. I think that's the best way to go.

Success, however you judge what that even means, brings with it certain pressures.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.

He said, "I am a man," and that meant certain things to Juana. It meant that he was half insane and half god.

I learned early on that there are certain things you can control in the press, and things you cannot.

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!

We've all seen great actors and actresses who are missing a certain chemistry. And it's not about getting along or not getting along.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.