Certain Quotes

7889 Certain quotes by 4693 unique authors

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily. — Georges Simenon
It's terrifying. It's so scary, because you get used to being around the crew and being friendly with everyone and then suddenly, at a certain… — Liv Tyler
I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make… — Julian Casablancas
Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent… — Simon van der Meer
When I was younger I dated women. I even got engaged. I thought I had to live a certain way. I thought I needed to… — Jason Collins
Christy Mathewson brought something to baseball no one else had ever given the game. He handed the game a certain touch of class, an indefinable… — Grantland Rice
I only knew that there was a certain rightness in life--the feeling you got when you did something the way you knew you should. — Laurence Yep
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for… — Calvin Trillin
The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds… — John Olsen
Among these things, one thing seems certain - that nothing certain exists and that there is nothing more pitiful or more presumptuous than man. — Pliny the Elder
Most people didnt have the bandwidth to download whole albums. And so it brought back this cherry picking idea that the audience would focus on… — Todd Rundgren
In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is… — Rafael Sabatini
So many people have fat bank accounts! But when God wants them to give they can’t give. When God wants them to do certain things… — Kong Hee
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be… — Nellie Bly
If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another,… — Brad Bird
The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding… — Claude Bernard
My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a… — Duncan Sheik
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of… — John Cowper Powys
I have been offered the highest paid contracts in the world. I refused them all. It's not my thing. I don't want to cheat people.… — Azzedine Alaia
Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens. — Naomi Shihab Nye
I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of… — Jackson Pearce
An academic discipline, or any other semiotic domain, for that matter, is not primarily content, in the sense of facts and principles. It is rather… — James Paul Gee
I perceive a necessary gap between seeing and being. I would not be able to have said certain things if I had been under the… — Norman O. Brown
Many things are possible. Few things are certain. — Harry Turtledove
Beyond a certain point, that was all a mother could do for her children - Hang around long enough to drive them crazy. — J. A. Jance

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