Certain Quotes

7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be… — Stanley Ellin
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write. — Toni Morrison
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage… — Elwyn Brooks White
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. — John Dos Passos
I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects just… — Joyce Carol Oates
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my… — Jamaica Kincaid
For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by… — Seymour Papert
The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no… — Pope John Paul II
The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be. — Unknown Author
I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They… — Imogen Cunningham
The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle. — Brandon Stanton
As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire… — Kate Winslet
Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements. — Jose Raul Capablanca
Many an expert says that there is a certain affinity between (Capablanca's style) and that of the world master, Lasker. There may be some truth… — Unknown Author
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's a fantastic game… — Judit Polgar
I was a Catholic boy, I went to church every Sunday. A church has a certain magic and mystery for a child. It still shows… — Robert Mapplethorpe
I am not very interested in extraordinary angles. They can be effective on certain occasions, but I do not feel the necessity for them in… — Bill Brandt
I don't know what good composition is.... Sometimes for me composition has to do with a certain brightness or a certain coming to restness and… — Diane Arbus
A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he's being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part… — Richard Avedon
To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge-and therefore, like… — Susan Sontag
There's no doubt. Its certain that ill be 100 percent — Lionel Messi
There's a certain amount of one-way shirt swapping going on. — Adrian Chiles
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through… — Alexey Brodovitch
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil. — Unknown Author

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