Certain Quotes

• I do feel a certain love from the British public.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Feels
  • Certain
  • British

• There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.

  

  David Longstreth
  • Song
  • Language
  • Discrete

• I've been with certain stars; some are caring and pay attention to their fans and to their fellow performers and some are too busy. Elvis never seemed too busy.

  

  Minnie Pearl
  • Attention
  • Certain
  • Redneck

• It used to be thought that only a certain kind of virus could get into our genome and it's called a retrovirus and that's a virus that might be HIV for example.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Kind
  • Certain
  • Example

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

  

  Redd Foxx
  • Way
  • Should
  • Certain

• It is impossible, after a certain point, to go back to a previous way of life, a previous way of thinking.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Way
  • Impossible

• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Doctors

• When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Care
  • Stars
  • Grows

• English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.

  

  Richard Lederer
  • Language
  • Universal
  • Punning

• It is a great vehicle for storytelling, especially for a certain kind of exhaustively reported, painstakingly fact-checked, and beautifully produced narrative.

  

  Clara Jeffery
  • Kind
  • Facts
  • Storytelling

• We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me.

  

  Wilbur Mills
  • Wanted
  • Bigger
  • Agreed

• Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Real
  • Ability
  • Natural

• If you get to a certain age, all people want to know about you is people you knew. ...An American student once said to me, you know, isn't it extraordinary that I am alive and you're not dead.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Age
  • Alive
  • Students

• As a woman, I have an inherent need to be all things to all people, to make certain everybody's taken care of. I know I can't sustain that level all the time, so I'm finding the proper balance and it's made me infinitely happier.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
  • Taken
  • Care

• I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Hands
  • Difficult
  • Harder

• Numbers are the most certain things we have.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Certain
  • Numbers
  • Mathematics

• We sold a certain, steady amount of product for them and they could count on it. When it came time to ask for the money for this new record, they dropped us. It was fine with us. It was a dead fish.

  

  Gene Ween
  • Money
  • Records
  • Products

• In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Actors
  • Clear
  • Needed

• I don't know if it Mary and Jane is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.

  

  Deborah Kaplan
  • Age
  • Girl
  • Speak

• I think that's the hardest thing as a woman, feeling like once you reach a certain age, no one wants to look at you or that you're not attractive or sexy anymore. And you start to feel like you're put out to pasture.

  

  Erin Davie
  • Thinking
  • Feelings
  • Attractive

• Traditional Albanian society was based on a clan system and was further divided into brotherhoods and bajraks. The bajrak system identified a local leader, called a bajrakar, who could be counted on to provide a certain number of men for military duty.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • Men
  • Military
  • Leader

• There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Boys

• There's a sense of urgency in understanding that your body is not really your own. We can control it to a certain extent through habits and good behavior, but there's so much we don't have control of.

  

  Sufjan Stevens
  • Understanding
  • Body
  • Habit

• Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Book
  • Reality

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