Certain Quotes

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent.

We've done it in intelligence sharing and certain elements of security. There were parts of the department, in fact, that worked very well in Katrina, like the Coast Guard and TSA.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.

There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off.

Every man has a certain sphere of discretion which he has a right to expect shall not be infringed by his neighbours. This right flows from the very nature of man.

It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.

There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

For example, one way of giving yourself a strong incentive to reach your goal is to commit to pay money to someone if you fail. Better yet, you can specify that you will have to pay a certain sum to a cause that you detest.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.

Certain things should be yours to have when you work your way to the top.

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don't just mean sex, I married him.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

In any job, you have to give up certain things, and I believe that having a good quality of life means enjoying certain things only in moderation.

Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

There's a certain lack of gimmickry to what I do that makes people in England go: 'Where's the thing?'

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Whenever Hollywood gets involved with real life events, certain liberties have to be taken.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

I don't get jobs in films by auditioning. I'm not blonde. You can't place me in movies the way you can with certain actors. It's very difficult for my agents.

At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.

Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook.

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.