Certain Quotes

I am certain that the United States next year, under a new president - regardless whether it's Obama or McCain - will present an ambitious program promoting renewable energies and energy efficiency. Europe could quickly fall behind.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

That means presenting the issues in certain ways that will appeal to those people and then becoming a prisoner of your own language and thought process. That has always happened - it's just been intensified.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

I am into nature and seeing whales. I went whale-watching, and I was really looking forward to that, but when you see it on TV and you see other programs do it, you're seeing close-ups of these massive creatures, and the music that's added gives you a certain feeling.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

If we become one of those societies that attack success, why not come as certain there will be a lot less success? And that's not who we are.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public.

I can easily conceive, most Holy Father, that as soon as some people learn that in this book which I have written concerning the revolutions of the heavenly bodies, I ascribe certain motions to the Earth, they will cry out at once that I and my theory should be rejected.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

There are only those certain people where things click - at least for me.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

I think what you learn, working on a film or TV set, is how to tune certain things out. You've got 60-100 people swirling around you, each of them with a very important job to do.

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise.

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the way you dress? Or is it the forgiving of certain things? What is black enough?

Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

I get recognised sometimes, and that's really cool. I've tried certain disguises, but that doesn't work.

True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know.

I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.