Certain Quotes

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Recently, I went up to Casino Rama to see Martin Short's show, just to see how he put it all together. And after the show, I went backstage and picked his brain to find out why he did certain things.

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.

Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

I don't like vampire movies or zombie movies. I went to see 'I Am Legend' with an ex-girlfriend the other day, and I immediately realised it was a zombie movie! You know what I mean? There are certain rules, and those rules are things that you've seen many times.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

It's difficult for a young girl like me. Because there's a certain time for young actresses, which is like a really juicy period when all the parts are love interests and young heroines. Of course, there's always work for men whatever age they are.

For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.

When you reach a certain level, you live in a bubble when all you think, dream and breathe is becoming the best athlete in the world.

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.

In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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.