Certain Quotes

• There was a certain moment. I was about 61 - two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying - "I don't wanna do it. The part's too small." And he sent it back to me, he said, "You shouldn't read the lover. You should read the father.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Father
  • Moments
  • Lovers

• 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

• 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

• Just like in Christianity or Buddhism, obviously there are certain practices that dictate one's life, but I don't think you can say all Muslim women are a certain way.

  

  Nia Long
  • Way
  • Practice
  • Christianity

• You can expand, repeat, even change keys and do other things electronically to give certain elements and phrases more cohesiveness.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Giving
  • Change
  • Certain

• I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Outlining

• I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Feels

• 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'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

• One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

  

  David Stockman
  • Home
  • Easy
  • Prosperity

• 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

• I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

  

  Paul Hirsch
  • Certain
  • Approach

• 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

• 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

• 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 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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