Certain Quotes

Happiness is not created as a result of certain conditions. Certain conditions are created as a result of happiness.

You get a feeling on certain trails, when you're reacting like you and your machine are just one thing. It's the feeling of physical exertion and speed and technique all wrapped into one.

But at a certain point you've gotta be ruthless with the movie because you can have these great scenes, but they aren't specifically building the story that needs to be built at that moment.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

There's just certain accents that you can and can't do. And the Scottish accent was one that came quite naturally to me, which is weird because I have no one in my life who's Scottish.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.

I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.

To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.

I feel like I'm a designer, not a pop star. But if certain people think of me like a pop star, then the only thing I could do about this is dye my hair black and cut it short maybe.

Movies which set out to be 'commercial' usually have an artificial look about them-a certain waxlike quality. They allow for no failure, no moment of mistake.

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

There are certain times when a painting accelerates beyond you, and you have to try and understand and catch up with it.

There's certain things that we do work with Russia on and then there's certain things when they do something wrong, I have no problem calling them out on it.

When I start a movie, there will be certain films that I watch again just because the vibe seems right.

I watch movies all the time, so it's hard to pick certain specific directors that have inspired me in the aggregate.

This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

You get to be a certain age and you start reading stuff about the age you are, and you think, what is wrong with these people who are writing these books? Do they not have necks?

I'm still picking pockets--I just do it as legally as I can. Being married to a cop limits certain activities.

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

While not exactly disgruntled, he was far from feeling gruntled. He spoke with a certain what-is-it in his voice, and I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

When a private entity does not produce the desired results, it is (certain body parts excepted) done away with. But a public entity gets bigger.

There's a very good reason that governments aren't supposed to compete with private-enterprise companies. Governments have monopolies on certain things, like eminent domain and deadly force.

Coalition will come sooner or later, I'm certain of that.

It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life.

If you listen to certain things then you can hear music everywhere. But it's your perspective on 'what do I listen to, why do I listen, what's going on.' And then you have music.

Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.

The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in a certain kind of drag.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

Once a child is confronted with the concept of death there's a certain innocence that goes.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

I just like living in certain atmospheres. Or I just like people as they are.

When you do controversial work, you're going to upset a certain amount of people.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

Obviously, I'm not homeless. I'm not an old alcoholic. I'm not jumping trains. I just like to live in a certain way.

I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of certain suppositions. Suppositions are a form of questioning.