Certain Quotes

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

There are certain things that happen in New York that just don't happen anywhere else.

I wrote poems and an essay about that weird language. We still remember it to a certain extent, and it still comes up when we're all together. It's so fundamental to how I think.

your 90MHz Pentium won't have any trouble doing arithmetic (except for certain divisions).

I don't mind being stereotyped in some way and playing certain kinds of guys, but if I can find something to occasionally get a break from that, that would be nice. And I feel like I manage to.

When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all the loud-speakers.

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

It's a lot of random situations that combine in a certain volatile form and create a bigger-than- the-whole situation that nobody could have predicted.

I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.

The whole theory of what Satan is, it's Lucifer, the highest of the seraphim, the bearer of God's light, who at a certain point comes to believe he is what is being revealed to him.

[My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

I am convinced that a person is entitled to as much privacy as he wants. It should be his privilege to keep certain areas of his life out of the newspapers.

We're living in a certain time, and we're aware of it. And that's part of what we're aware of, along with our own personal aches and pains.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

There was a certain amount of discipline, I think; my parents wanted to be sure that I was not just sitting around doing nothing.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.

I've always known a lot of very bad people, destructive, brutes of a certain kind. Then I've seen these lovely impulses and what not, and they've stayed with me and comforted me.

There's a certain amount of tyranny in all of us to some extent, and in some people it's much more developed than in others. It's a different balance which makes us all different.

I got very interested in attention and awareness and how to achieve certain states through understanding this.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

He also knows that certain moments repeat themselves.

Warriors always have a certain gleam in their eyes.

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

The Warrior listens to the words of certain thinkers.

I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.

Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

My wife can look at me in a certain way and I can tell by her eyes how she's feeling about me or when I should stop talking about something. It's kind of the way twins have their own thing.

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia.

A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options.

I think my films are very English. That certain emotional distance, interest in the world, interest in irony. These are all deeply English propositions.

History is a matter of interpretation, but you have to start with certain facts.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

You can mix in certain sensitivities as a filmmaker.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

To read a novel requires a certain kind of concentration, focus, devotion to the reading. If you read a novel in more than two weeks, you don't read the novel really.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.

Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

... not being liked has a certain virtue about it, if the reason for the dislike does not lie in yourself!

It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on.