Certain Quotes

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

At one level you're condemned to the voice you have. But within those confines, you have a certain amount of freedom to range among your possible voices.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.

Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.

Well, there are certain foods that I prefer not to eat because they're just such a jolt to the system.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

You have to learn certain skills to present magic.

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.

I am now almost certain that we need more radiation for better health.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.