Top 400 Certain Things Quotes

I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what’s happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.

The truth was you can’t continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can’t afford certain things. No, we can’t do certain things.

I mean, I didn’t feel, as part of Girls Aloud, that my opinion wasn’t heard, or they went and did certain things and I had no say, or we had no say.

Listen, every person has to have a bit of privacy in their life. There are certain things I hold very dear and secret.

There were certain things I couldn’t do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.

I really enjoyed the sort of real crazy, eclectic layering stuff and how it all worked together. I could tell it was some of it was derivative of something. I could tell that certain things were being looped around and I just really enjoyed the way that it all came together.

As a chef, you need to respect your guests and their needs. If they decide that they want to eat certain things and not eat others, if for religious reasons or just decide they don’t want to eat certain ingredients, you have to respect that.

There’s always certain actors that are interested in certain things and other actors who aren’t.

I am not premeditated in what I am going to say. That means there will be times I regret saying certain things.

There are certain things I talk to my mom and certain things I speak to dad for. But I also know that it has never been that I can tell my mum something and my dad won’t know. They are very dependent on each other even though they may not say it or realise it.

I’m not one of those regimental people who never eats certain things – that’s not life. You’ve got to live; you’ve got to eat what you want and treat yourself.

I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

Sometimes I hold back from tweeting certain things. Sometimes you’re emotional, and you want to tweet a lyric or whatever it may be. I can’t do that because if I do, it’s, ‘Oh, this means this and that she must be going through this…’ It’s like, what the hell?

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.

In baseball, there’s certain things you can call someone: a fossil, graybeard, grandpa, dad, pops. But I got a chance to say it and mean it.

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.

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.

When I go shopping, I try to specify certain things for certain events, but most of the time, I have so much stuff to pull from at home in the closet.

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Arab Israelis don’t have the same voice as Jewish Israelis. If you look at the numbers, we are not equal. There are many reasons for this, some have to do with the fact that we are a bit primitive in the way we do certain things, others have to do with the government not giving us the same opportunities as Jews.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there’s a use for those things in my life and in my work.

I admire traits in people. I ‘respect’ certain things about them but I think that word gets thrown around too much.

If you want to do well you have to sacrifice certain things.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 ‘is involved’ or not (whatever ‘is involved’ might mean).

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.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

I work very hard, you know, but I don’t think that I’m working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.

I had a lot of different thoughts and ideas and always to transform, but I’m trying certain things that I feel my heart is really going for and that was one of the things that I initiated a few months ago.

I’ve definitely done things to change my behaviour. There are certain things you can’t do when you get to a certain level in what you do. When it gets to a certain time, you’re a story to somebody. It is something I have taken on board.

I think that women are raised to believe that they’re supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you’re supposed to apologize when you don’t want those things.

There are certain things you cannot accept. There are certain things that human beings cannot tolerate.

Yes, I do come with certain reservations, and I’m not OK with certain things, but rather than focusing on what I don’t want to do, I focus on what I do want to do, and I bring that energy, and that happens.

I don’t sound like other people. My voice isn’t as loud and can’t do certain things athletically.

Once the writers got to know the actors, they would include certain things – personality-wise – for the characters because they knew you liked that sort of thing.

I won’t be a pundit because you have to be saying certain things that you might not even want to, but you have to.

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of ‘why.’ I just want to always keep the people wondering.

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

Not everybody in this league is the most talented guy in this world, but they’re able to stay in this league and make a good living for themselves because they work really hard at it and perfected certain things.

They tried to get me to use a pick when I first joined the band. They had certain things they thought were appropriate. I tried to adapt as much as I could.

Yes, I think I am like the sea. I appear calm on the surface, but there’s a lot going on within. Many a times, I may not react to certain things, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t care or I don’t have emotions.

Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.

Prateik means symbol so I symbolise certain things in my life.

Life is full of trade-offs. At different phrases in your life, you’re able to do certain things that you can’t do at other phases. And you make choices.

There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.

I’m interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

As an actor, you express certain things because they need to be expressed, and then you don’t really feel a need to do it again. I want to feel something else, you know?

When you’re on the court, there is certain things that you would do that you wouldn’t do off the court. When you get off, you obviously have to be gracious and a humble person. When you are on the floor, be a team player. Championships are what you are defined by – legacy. Go about things the right way.

Certain things make me anxious. God forbid I get stuck in an elevator.

Sometimes when our manager calls me and says certain things, we go, ‘Oh God, we’ve gotta do that?’

There are certain things in ‘Twilight’… As much as I’m proud of that movie and I do like it, I feel like maybe I brought too much of myself to the character. I feel like I really know Bella now. But most readers feel like they know Bella because it’s a first-person narrative.

You can have a bad opponent out there and still get the job done. You just have to work around certain things.

We each have our own style but yeah, when you boil it down like there are certain things that human beings just are predisposed to laugh at and we’re just kind of all putting our own spin on it.