Certain Quotes

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

Directing is a more pragmatic experience, where you have to deal with the restrictions of time and money that force you to make certain decisions you don't have to make when you're writing.

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be.

I should add that I very much enjoy certain cities especially Paris, New York and Chicago.

For women of a certain age, how do you meet a guy, fall in love, and decide he's the right man to have children with? Your clock's ticking, you're looking at him, and it's a crazy, pressure-filled experience.

Time seems to stop in certain places.

Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the films they want to see, or stay in church and leave us to our work.

To a certain extent I am taking a leap of faith. I'm adding up the evidence on either side, and I'm seeing the evidence of there not being a God is overwhelming compared to the evidence for there being a God.

Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought.

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.

I think it was more personal, but I certainly tried to adapt certain concepts of Surrealism.

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

You have to be damn certain you're putting something better in its place.