Certain Quotes

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

This kind of certainty comes but just once in a lifetime!

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

I always think that you have to have a certain understanding of what an audience would want to see from you as a public person as well as a character.

The entertainment person gets a certain credibility, and the politician gets a certain notoriety. I'm against it.

I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

We as human beings like to be cocksure and certain.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

Every time you pick up an instrument, it's not always out of necessity - for a certain kind of person, it's a choice.

You want to think about certain styles of music as being reflective of a certain culture or a certain time or a point of view. You don't want it to be just an intellectual exercise.

Using a certain sort of message can attract people to that message, and that creates power that you can either use responsibly or not.

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

A few actresses have all but set up shop as women of a certain age who attract younger lovers. I think of Susan Sarandon, Cameron Diaz and Isabelle Huppert.

Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

A presidential debate is a job interview. And voters look for certain traits in people applying to be president.

I guess a certain amount of temperament is expected of Chess geniuses

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

There have been a lot of murders and suicides in my family; it's like the primary cause of death. I wonder if there's a certain energy that attracts that.

Some people do have a very innate sexuality to them. I may or may not have it, but it makes people see you in a certain light that has nothing to do with me.

Respect the way characters may change once they've got 50 pages of life in them. Revisit your plan at this stage and see whether certain things have to be altered to take account of these changes.

Certain people who care about me a lot have said 'You don't play the game, and if you don't play the game, you don't get picked for the team all the time.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

On my travels around the world, I've met people in countries where democracy doesn't exist and if it does, they are intimidated into voting in a certain way.

There are two things you can be certain of: dying and getting the arse as a football coach.

I write down everything I eat and count the calories so I don't go over a certain amount. Everyone should do this if they are dieting or not. I think we all would be shocked by it.

No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. In certain cultures, an overall symmetry may conceal the complexity of the work at first glance.

They have actually approved a wall to certain portions of the border that hasn't even been built yet. So you could take a year building that out with what has been approved.

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it's hard not to get her to read into certain things.

To not want children or not be considerate of them is a very unwomanly thing to be, from a certain point of view.

The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.

I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.

Any team sport, there are certain team targets and those targets should always be in the forefront.

Having money has given me a certain freedom, but being in the public eye has taken away a lot.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.

When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

Ultimately, as individuals we each have to ask ourselves to be courageous and apply certain principles.

Certain teachers have tremendous amounts of experience. They are articulate, and they give wonderful discourse. But at some point along the road, they themselves learned from and studied a book.

People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.