Certain Quotes

To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.

Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions.

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies, but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

My second record was all about big ideas - I was trying to make big statements about the culture, about life. I think in a certain way, I was a 27 year old kid with a guitar.

You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they're both on fire - they're exactly alike.

At a certain point, I got into the older, cooler crowd, and they listened to hip-hop. I was desperately trying to fit in.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

We have people who are healers and those who posses a certain animal magnetism.

At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

I didn't want to skate for someone else or for certain marks.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

Beyond just writing about falling in love and out of love and wanting to do certain things and going out and partying and all the things that I grew up writing about, I want to write about deeper things.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

When I left Europe in 1987 I did so with the thought that my relevance as a composition teacher would benefit from a certain cool distance to certain tendencies I had been observing for several years with increasing disquiet.

I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

Know why certain foods, such as truffles, are expensive. It's not because they taste best.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.