Certain Quotes

Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

There were certain areas in the country where I couldn't go without being stopped and asked for autographs and pictures for years.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

I've noticed in England once people reach a certain level they feel they have to get married.

What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.

I think its important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

People who try to be nice are false. They're liars. You should never force your behavior to be a certain way. You should just be. Maybe it's not going to be nice, but at least it'll be honest.

He is strong, and lithe, and certain. And he is mine.

At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.

Having children can be such a gift, but it can be a crushing experience for a certain kind of mom. And I am that certain kind of mom.

Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the lyric poem.

Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally.

A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

People tend to view land art as something that happened at a certain historical moment - like minimal art, which I was also very much involved with. But it still goes on. It's very much alive.

Our trend in the privatization process and gradual withdrawal of the state from certain assets remains unchanged.

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

Go on in the certain way, and if you do not receive that thing, you will receive something so much better that you will see that the seeming failure was really a great success.

It is a natural law that like causes always produce like effects; and, therefore, any man or woman who learns to do things in this certain way will infallibly get rich.

"The Fever" is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

But because we've all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time.

There is a crisis involving reading in certain communities.

I think the problem with the cinema currently is that so much of the money that goes movies that offer a certain kind of repetition.

What each man does is based not on direct and certain knowledge, but on pictures made by himself or given to him...

I laugh, that there's a certain kind of cyclical nature to life and that I don't have to worry because whatever isn't there right now, it's coming back again.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

In fact, I believe to a certain extent a person today who starts with just clay, with no drawing and no painting and no figure drawing, still-life drawing, various things, they miss a great deal.

One point is certain, that truth is one and immutable; until the jurors all agree, they cannot all be right.

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.

Scott Fitzgerald is a sound you like to hear at certain times of the day, say at four in the afternoon and again late at night, and at other times it makes you slightly sick.

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.

It takes a certain type of person to register your 'Donkey Kong' score. So I'm just number 29 in registered Donkey Kong scores.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

You have to contort your body in a certain way to hit a low note. When you're on film, you can't. So you do, in a sense, get to hide behind your voice, which is nice.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.

I figure it's okay to make certain rules, whether or not people despise you for it at the time.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.