Certain Quotes · Page 41

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic…

— Charles Jencks

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

One of the difficulties with grief research is that it risks making certain kinds of grief seem normal and others abnormal -…

— Meghan O'Rourke

As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find…

— Cedric Yarbrough

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain…

— Lupe Fiasco

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself…

— Rodney Mullen

I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to…

— Albert Einstein

Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a…

— Michael Patrick Jann

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they…

— Walter Pater

To a certain extent, this tour is a celebration of individuality and that you can invent and reinvent yourself. You should have…

— Neil Tennant

Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years.

— Yoko Ono

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

— David K. Shipler

People buy a game because they like the game and they want to play the game. And there are certain characters in…

— Michael Gough

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.

— Jessica Lange

I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and…

— Thom Yorke

What makes international cinema so interesting is that each territory has its own sensibility. When you look at an Indian or French…

— Wong Kar-wai

I don't like to do things for any other reason than it happens spontaneously or there's something that makes it happen naturally.…

— Ziggy Marley

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an…

— Hugh Grant

[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and…

— Benjamin Rush

It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are…

— Sienna Miller

I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe…

— D. B. Sweeney

I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain…

— Marilynne Robinson

Any housing solution that involves paying for industrially produced building materials and commercial building contractors is doomed to certain failure. If houses…

— Hassan Fathy

I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves…

— Ezra Taft Benson

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he…

— W. Somerset Maugham