Certain Quotes

Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

Beck said he didn't believe in the theory of a song coming through you as if you were an open vessel. I agree with him to a certain extent.

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sense of loyalty. You know how to win and lose. There's a thousand kids outside, you know who to push and who not to push. There's a sixth sense you develop just because it's New York.

Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on their shoulders, we'd be hard put to distinguish them.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

In a band that works out well, everybody has a certain role to fulfill.

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

But actors at a certain point take the best of what's available to them.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

I've been talking to certain wrestlers on the phone lately, and certain female wrestlers that were huge stars ten years ago, and the first thing I ask them is 'do you still want to work?' Do they want to talk, or do they want to wrestle or do something else in the business?

Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and November mud... He remains for many the heart of pro football, pumping hard right now.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Sometimes my mother had difficulty communicating with me about certain topics.