Certain Quotes

• If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for it would be inconceivable that life started twice here but never on all the other earth-like planets.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Type

• When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

  

  Herb Alpert
  • Trying
  • Car
  • Listening

• We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right?

  

  Seth Godin
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Elements

• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Certain
  • Seriously
  • Conclusions

• And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Certain
  • Hell
  • Fit

• There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Guy
  • Certain
  • Killing

• Some deeply untrusting actors - the kind that need to know exactly what's what and are completely insecure - might be quite good within the parameters of a certain sort of acting.

  

  Mike Leigh
  • Kind
  • Acting
  • Actors

• When people look at the ratings and they're bad, I think people can get an idea of "Why would they even make the show?" And to a certain extent, original programming for any network is a loss leader to try to get you to keep the channel on your cable package.

  

  Scott Aukerman
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Party
  • Certainty
  • Ambiguity

• When you know you have a certain amount of work to finish, you just don't allow yourself to get sick again.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Knows
  • Sick
  • Amount

• I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

  

  Michael Ian Black
  • Certain
  • Causes
  • Levels

• There's a certain class of people who will do you in and then remain completely mystified by the depth of your pain.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • People
  • Pain
  • Certain

• People often think I'm a faker, but I'm usually honest, in a certain way--in such a way that often nobody believes me!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Believe
  • Way
  • Honest

• From the very beginning, we bucked tradition. When the experts said that something was "always done" in a certain way, we'd do it our way, which was sometimes the very opposite.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Sometimes
  • Courage
  • Tradition

• Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.

  

  Melissa Etheridge
  • People
  • Mind
  • Song

• You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

  

  Chang-Rae Lee
  • Sometimes
  • Perspective
  • Certain

• I know I wouldn't be here, and all of us wouldn't be here, without certain sacrifices and certain stands that people have made -- not just women, but men stepping up and supporting what we do and how we do it.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Sacrifice
  • Certain

• I always say it's not my Arkestra, it belongs to some other force which wants certain things, to reach people.

  

  Sun Ra
  • Want
  • Force
  • Certain

• The most improbable tales can be made believable, if your reader, through his sense, feels certain that he stands at the middle of events.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Feels
  • Made
  • Events

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