Certain Things Quotes

#1. We may not understand why certain things occur in our lives, but we understand who to run to when they do.

Dillon Burroughs

#2. You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Jill Flint

#3. As I get older, the character evolves tremendously because I'm married and have kids now and realize certain things are not funny anymore. I threw them out of my act.

Larry The Cable Guy

#4. I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

Janina Gavankar

#5. I really just try to focus on my job, which is to be an actor, and outside that, the cards fall where they may, and on not getting caught up in how people react to certain things. That's a death trap creatively.

Matt Bomer

#6. I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

Hillary Clinton

#7. As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Christina Hendricks

#8. You have a movie and it proves itself and then certain things happen.

Barry Levinson

#9. Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

Jean Grae

#10. There are certain things that make restaurants work and a certain kind of DNA that people who excel in restaurants need. But it's a lot like life, in the sense that you get out of it what you put into it.

Joe Bastianich

#11. I felt I should have been taught about the landmine problem. It made me suddenly realize certain things about the world and how much I had to learn, like the history of the people.

Angelina Jolie

#12. I'm trained to look for certain things ... I shoot, I shoot, I shoot, and then I go find it in the ether.

Sante D'Orazio

#13. You can't have a regime which continuously subsidizes things; as inflation rises, you keep prices of certain things unchanged.

Adi Godrej

#14. I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

Sheryl Crow

#15. It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.

Pete Sampras

#16. I watch comedy on TV, and it's too cutty for me. I get a little jarred, and it succeeds. It's not like it's not working, and I look at certain things, and it has the cutting ... it's not like I'd make terribly different cuts, but for some reason, it moves too fast for me.

David Dobkin

#17. Make certain decisions only once ... We can make a single decision about certain things that we will incorporate in our lives and then make them ours - without having to brood and re-decide a hundred times what it is we will do and what we will not do.

Spencer W. Kimball

#18. There are certain things in 'Descender' that I've dealt with in the past. I think you can see a direct parallel with Sweet Tooth in TIM-21.

Jeff Lemire

#19. I don't know yet whether I fully believe in fate, but certain things do happen in a man's life that he cannot explain.

David Gemmell

#20. When people don't know who you are, they're seeing your work for the first time. But if they've seen a lot, getting certain things across is a more difficult.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#21. Sooner or later every gardener must face the fact that certain things are going to die on him. It is a temptation to be anthropomorphic about plants, to suspect that they do it to annoy.

Eleanor Perenyi

#22. We all want to believe that every day is different, that every day we change, but really, it seems that certain things are coded into us from the very beginning.

Jasmine Warga

#23. Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Billy Gibbons

#24. I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don't exist. I'm just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I'm not going to say.

Terry McMillan

#25. There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

Swami Paramananda

#26. I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.

Randy Houser

#27. He was trying to accept that there were certain things that would never conform to his idea of how life should be, no matter how intensely he hoped or pretended they might.

Hanya Yanagihara

#28. Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.

Harry Connick Jr.

#29. There are rules, and when certain things happen, there are ceratin consequences.

Sarah Paulson

#30. When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring.

Farkas Bolyai

#31. libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.

Fulton J. Sheen

#32. Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

Jeff Smith

#33. There are certain things you learn to do as a parent - using every single part of your body because you're multitasking all the time. You're holding the baby and you're closing the door with your left foot.

Amy Ryan

#34. I have values I believe in and certain things I stand for.

Torrey Smith

#35. I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Tyra Banks

#36. One of the advantages of no longer being young is that you're expected to start making up your mind about certain things.

Terry Teachout

#37. Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw. We feel and act about certain things that are ours very much as we feel and act about ourselves.

William James

#38. Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

Amy Chua

#39. You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#40. I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.

Madeline Zima

#41. There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.

Tariq Ramadan

#42. It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Henri De Regnier

#43. Ciara, there are certain things a man does not ask of a lady."
"You are not asking."
"Aye.

Shelly Thacker

#44. I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play ... if somebody else was playing this character.'

Lena Dunham

#45. There are certain things for which civilization has no answer. But if you choose to meddle thus, then you must be prepared to facethe consequences, whatever they are.

Jimmy Sangster

#46. 3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.

Tim Burton

#47. You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

Floyd Mayweather Jr.

#48. There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures.

Warren Buffett

#49. Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

Clint Eastwood

#50. But when I worked on a painting I would do it from a drawing but I would put certain things I was fairly sure I wanted in the painting, and then collage on the painting with printed dots or painted paper or something before I really committed it.

Roy Lichtenstein

#51. Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#52. I work with kids, and I see certain things, so I realize now why my mother was so horrified and overprotective of everything that I watched.

Debby Ryan

#53. 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

Wallace Shawn

#54. I found that there were these incredibly great people at doing certain things, and you couldn't replace one of these people with fifty average people.

Steve Jobs

#55. I always enjoyed art history because, growing up in California, my exposure was limited, and it was a new experience. To learn the history of art opened up certain things to me, made me see. It intrigued me.

Herb Ritts

#56. You don't need a team! Often, we do not do certain things because we feel that to take up something new, we need a team or at least one more person who thinks as we do. If you are smart enough you may not need any one else!

Abhishek Ratna

#57. She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know

Arundhati Roy

#58. But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.

Neil Jordan

#59. We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.

Marc Guggenheim

#60. There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy.

Johnny Depp

#61. Doing a job, or even watching a film, can make a difference to your life, but I don't think it ever has an explosive impact where your life will never be the same again. It kind of seeps into your life, and perhaps realise you're a little more vigilant about certain things than you might have been.

Colin Firth

#62. You get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.

Martha Beck

#63. A real leader can somehow get us to do certain things that deep down we think are good and want to be able to do but usually can't get ourselves to do on our own.

David Foster Wallace

#64. God puts certain things in certain people. I'm a restless soul. I'm always searching. I'm always pressing to find what truth is and what life is all about.

Jonathan Jackson

#65. Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

Paulo Coelho

#66. We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

Donald Kagan

#67. I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Leslie Marmon Silko

#68. Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just thought about girls I knew really, really well and I'd just have conversations with them and tried to relay how they talk about certain things.

Eli Roth

#69. There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

Imogen Cunningham

#70. Music is entirely subjective. I was thinking that for myself, for songwriting and what I like to listen to, to help motivate me as a songwriter, as a musician, there are certain things I lean towards and certain things I don't.

Marnie Stern

#71. When you're not at the top of your game and you feel like the other team is laughing and embarrassing you by doing certain things, it's time to retaliate.

Bert Blyleven

#72. Better to find out certain things by living them, not by reading them in a book.

Susanna Kearsley

#73. I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove.

Gilbert Hernandez

#74. There are some songs we do, like "Last Chance," I love it! But sometimes you just don't like your voice on certain things.

Ginuwine

#75. Certain things happened in the early church. Women who had never had any freedom suddenly have the ability to stand up and speak and be treated as equals within the life of the church.

Tony Campolo

#76. Sometimes there are certain things that you gotta grow into. Sometimes, for some actors, they know it spiritually at a young age. Others need to grow into it.

Elias Koteas

#77. I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.

Farrah Abraham

#78. I had been a girl of whom certain things were expected, none of them too bad: a career as a nurse, for example; a sense of duty to my parents; obedience to the law and worship of convention. But in one year of being away from home, that girl had gone out of existence.

Jamaica Kincaid

#79. Each instrument has something to say to you. It's got its own character. Each horn has its own character and will say to you certain things. If you violate that, it's almost a sacrilege!

Jerome Richardson

#80. There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

Josh Charles

#81. When I go into the studio - it [words] has to sound the way I heard it in my head. So that's probably one of the biggest things that separates me when I'm working in the studio - just how I hear certain things.

Kendrick Lamar

#82. It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

George Plimpton

#83. Our natural egoism leads us to judge people by their relations to ourselves. We want them to be certain things to us, and for us that is what they are; because the rest of them is no good to us, we ignore it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#84. I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies.

Lucas Till

#85. You have an hour and a half or two hours - maybe two and a half hours - in a movie, and it has to be a self-contained three-act structure. It's like a rock and roll song. Certain things have to happen for it to be a toe-tapper and get people excited, leaving the theater.

Jon Favreau

#86. There are certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled. Among these are many, I should say most, of the things that constitute the good life. All are essential to democracy. All are proof against its enemies.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

#87. You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.

A.S. Byatt

#88. Sometimes you may even have a stunt double do certain things for you, but when it's close-up and it's really dramatic, that's when you really need to concentrate. You cannot get body doubles or anybody else to do it for you.

Svetlana Khodchenkova

#89. One of the first things that helped me to understand certain things about writing was seeing 'The Iceman Cometh' in the Village when I was a kid, before I ever became a newspaperman, and realizing that the world I knew could also be the subject of some amazing stuff.

Pete Hamill

#90. It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.

Jonathan Franzen

#91. Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Idris Elba

#92. Each job I had wasn't necessarily the perfect job, but I always talk to young women about how you really have to take certain things from each job and learn from that and then move on to something you really want to do.

Tory Burch

#93. Black is not a notion. Africa is not a color. Africa is a culture. So you can be pitch black and I am my color but I'm more African than you can ever be because culturally there are certain things that you just don't understand.

Jihan El-Tahri

#94. Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.

Sienna Miller

#95. Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

Billy Corgan

#96. I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things ... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst ... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

Angelina Jolie

#97. It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

Jack White

#98. There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself.

Jessica Simpson

#99. I am writing a manifesto and there's nothing I want, and yet I'm saying certain things, and in principle I am against manifestos, as I am against principles.

Tristan Tzara

#100. I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

Harmony Korine