Certain Quotes

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

Each of our temples is an expression of our testimony that life beyond the grave is as real and as certain as is our life here on earth.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

The fool rushed to certain conclusions. The middling man approached them warily, and with circumspection. And the wise man, perceiving them from afar, decided to go round another way.

I was not, and am not, officially a producer of that film [I am love] but the work of what a producer does I learned at that stage and to a certain extent I've been a producer ever since.

Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.

People put on certain clothes for certain reasons, I assume, when their closet is filled with clothes.

Bankruptcy represents a longstanding commitment in this country to helping people get a fresh start. This principle has never been giving only certain people a fresh start.

At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.

Certain blood was being shed for uncertain reasons.

Doing nothing is making certain you lose. Which is just gutless.

I wouldn't venture to say which kind of sin is more prevalent. I wouldn't even want to try to characterize certain 'circles.'

I feel as if most people are pretty much the same within a certain class, due to the schools they attend and the way they are raised.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

You are pure flame. I touch you and I ignite. I kiss you and I burn to have more. You consume me… like no other woman before you, and, I am certain, like no other ever could again.

It kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay.

To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

But I think the children of actors share a certain pragmatic approach. One is denied some of that 'running away with the circus' element of being an actor.

My parents' parents were regular working-class people. I ended up speaking in a certain way, and one gets sidelined into doing certain parts. I think that is really quite narrow-minded.

We really did it write it for the story but once you get into production, once you start doing this process certain things will jump out at you. Some shots will be more 3-D than others.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

And the pressure to clarify what exactly is happening to Christians and other minorities in the Middle East is certain to intensify in the New Year.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

Once you've seen certain things, the moral compunction drives you to act.

The price of self-destiny is never cheap, and in certain situations it is unthinkable. But to achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

I never directly think of certain films. I know I am influenced by all the films I see.

Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

Anytime you do a story that has an impact beyond that day's headlines and in what I regard as a very positive direction there has to be a certain amount of pride.

I think every collection is always a move forward. It's the same work - the process is always the same. The interesting thing is to try to achieve a certain nothingness.

Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

In all honesty, I grew up a certain way. I never had to worry about money. That was my reality.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

I want a certain thing for my children. I just want to be in their life. I don't want nannies raising my kids.

At certain point, you realize it's easy to play music for the rest of your life: just don't sell your guitar. Maybe you get a day job, but as long as you have a guitar, you can play.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.