Certain Quotes

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.

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.

I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of.

You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.

All you have to know is mathematically how many times to scratch it and when to let it go - when certain things will enhance the record you're listening to.

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave.

In America, politicians do whatever to get re-elected, and a lot of decisions that were being made at that time by Kennedy were certain not to get him re-elected.