Certain Quotes · Page 333

I think maybe there could be some restrictions that there had to be a certain amount of training taken.

— Ronald Reagan

I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain…

— Michael Uslan

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

— Alan Moore

It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm pretty immature and get pretty embarrassed easily. I would check out once in a while certain shots to make sure that…

— Natalie Portman

The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that…

— Naomi Klein

Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano.…

— David Markson

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look…

— Amy Grant

I feel that certain things are best kept inside a family and not discussed with anyone else.

— Annette Bening

It was a sort of organic thing. I never went, 'I must be an actress.' I thought, 'I think I could do…

— Alice Englert

How many times have you struggled with the interpretation of certain Biblical texts related to the time of Jesus' return because they…

— Gary DeMar

You can still achieve certain things through effort, struggle, determination, and sheer hard work or cunning. But there is no joy in…

— Eckhart Tolle

The protection of our citizens, the spirit and honor of our country, require that force should be interposed to a certain degree.

— Thomas Jefferson

I don't like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel…

— Russell Simmons

The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope.…

— William S. Burroughs

This is one of the ways fiction is more liberating than nonfiction - I don't have to be so concerned with fact.…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to…

— Albert Camus

Hopefully, I brought people a certain joy. That will be a wonderful legacy.

— Julie Andrews

There are certain things I learned when I first started learning about acting, to try and place the character physically and emotionally.…

— David Duchovny

I like to bring a certain sense of humanity and detail to my work, and watercolor allows me to do that. I…

— Jerry Pinkney

The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience…

— Melissa Febos

My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do…

— Emma Walton Hamilton

Certain majors [lables] just know what they're doin', and got a good grip on the dynamic of what's happening, and some don't.

— Joe Budden

It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any…

— John Dyer Baizley

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

— William Hazlitt

The United States and Turkey are the only two countries that don't have some kind of subsidy for the Arts. The whole…

— Alex North

In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was…

— Barack Obama

Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.

— Ben Jonson

I didn't grow up in one place, so I never had a certain mentality. I have some aspects of growing up in…

— Debby Ryan

It's Mari, Jack," Ken whispered, needing to say it aloud. "What?" Jack jerked around, staring at the sniper as the eyes fluttered…

— Christine Feehan

I've had my moments of insanity. But there is a certain responsibility to set proper examples for your children, and that influences…

— Andy Garcia

The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And…

— Anne Waldman

Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution.

— Jacques Derrida

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

— Billy Gibbons

Every mind has its particular standard of good and bad, and of right and wrong. This standard is made by what one…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that…

— Carolyn Mackler

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience…

— Saul Bellow

Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is…

— Isaac D'Israeli

The issue is, the Arabs have many allies. Among the worst reactionaries in the world. No religion out of which so much…

— Manfred Gerstenfeld