Certain Quotes

I'm reaching a certain level [at school] that I had been aspiring to with all these incredibly advanced classical peers around me that I had been trying to be able to hang with them a little bit.

I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.

At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

Maybe if you play somebody in a certain world people sometimes misinterpret that it's a support of that world or that occupation or something.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.

It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.

I think acting is a gift. I think certain people for some reason just have a gift that they were meant to perform.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.

Most of the times that I think about my relationship to Judaism, I not only accuse myself of a shallowness, but I feel certain that there's a shallowness there. That's not a bad thing, really.

To remember my values, I need to lose certain tastes and find other handles for the memories that they once helped me carry.

Oh, I'd say I like a meal as much as anybody. But I find a certain kind of foodiness silly, gluttonous and embarrassing.

I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

Sometimes, at a certain point, the painting seems to have painted itself without my help - what I have called the 'eureka' moment when a sudden daring intervention has worked a miracle.

The root of masculine is stronger, and of feminine weaker. The sun is a governing planet to certain planets, while the moon borrows her light from the sun, and is less or weaker.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two forms of media.

I'm pretty simple, I don't use a hairbrush or a certain kind of hair product.

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.

I'm definitely not going to go and sing a song that condones certain things.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission.

I'm sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I think it's fun to have people see everything at once, and then I think certain shows are very well-suited to being on every week and being spread out over months.

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.

I'm pretty certain that if there is a will there is a way.

If we think about sexual life for a gender life, it seems to me that we have to allow for certain kinds of changes or certain kinds of ways of reconceptualizing ourselves.

I think it's important to live with a certain danger and a certain risk.

Sometimes we do things a certain way just because that is the way we do things.

I love traveling and I love seeing new places and meeting new people, but at the same time, it takes a certain amount of emotional strength to gel with that, at least for me.

Children,” Lady Bridgerton said with a sigh as she retook her seat. “I am never quite certain if I’m glad I had them.

It was funny, he reflected later, how one’s life could alter in an instant, how one minute everything could be a certain way, and the next it’s simply ... not

I do think that the more takes you have the more opportunity to experiment [but] at a certain point, there are diminishing returns. There's only so much variety you offer.

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and obtain a lush lifestyle makes a certain (albeit seedy) sense.

I think some people, when they get a certain ego, they lose sense of whatever.

Some jobs required a certain level of detachment; a turning off of emotions in order to do the things that needed to be done.

I think living in a new country gives you a certain bravery that you don't have when you live in your own country - because of the freedom it gives you.

The success my children have had has helped me immensely. Ive showed them a certain respect for this career.

The sight of a certain depressed-to-the-max head of seaweed has made me quite ill.