Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robertson Davies

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

Rod Stewart

I do feel a certain love from the British public.

William Faulkner

In every writer there is a certain amount of the scavenger.

Voltaire

What can we say with certainty?

William Boyd

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

William Butler Yeats

Words alone are certain good.

Sandra Cisneros

Even if we don't know if God exists, we can be certain love exists, because its power transcends death.

Our coaches felt like we could make a couple of little adjustments and get some good looks for certain runs and boy, they were good looks,

Retailers may have struggled to clear through certain cold-weather seasonal items, perhaps resulting in deeper markdowns on those items.

Carly Fiorina

Results were driven by excellent execution in imaging and printing and good performance in services, ... While overall computing systems results remain weak, we saw improvement in certain segments, including storage and PCs.

Really, I think it's just a matter of giving into ourselves. It's easy to talk yourself out of playing hard. At certain points of the game that's what we've been doing.

E. B. White

Real world, certain positions come with certain perks, and I'm not opposed to having certain perks as long as there's no hint of impropriety

Real will have 99 percent of its squad ready by June 30, that's for certain and will have a new coach in two weeks.

Philippe Petit

In my life, I wanted to meet certain people. I never met Charlie Chaplin, but I met Werner Herzog.

John Conyers

In my judgment, eliminating prosecutorial options at the same time that the defendant has failed to yield any of its own options threaten to weaken and slow down the case, rather than provide a route to 'prompt, effective, and certain relief' as your press release claims,

In fact, I'm certain that, had it not been for marijuana, I would have died.

In a certain sense, I think that these new technologies are reducing the constraints on how we organize work.

I guess it's something that has kind of developed, ... By the time the game starts, coach Reggie and I have studied the opponent so much I know the percentages of what a team will do on third down or second down or out of a certain formation. When you look at football scientifically and probabilities you can guess right. And sometimes it's just common sense. When they've got three or four guys over here and one over there, you can guess the ball is going over there.

Albert Brooks

I guess 'The Player' was a pretty good L.A. movie. And 'Chinatown.' Was there ever a better L.A. movie about a certain period in L.A.? That was terrific.

I had him get after it. I'm just trying to make him concentrate more in every situation, have a purpose for everything. I was giving him certain outs, counts, scores, to see what he would do with it.

Larry Sabato

If you end up separating yourself from the president of your party, you are going to turn off a certain number of partisans.

Jonas Armstrong

If you find yourself desperate for money, you sometimes do whatever, but on the other hand, if you really want to be known as a certain type of actor, then you have to restrain yourself.

If you have certain rules and restrictions, your opponents will file complaints and you'll have to hire lawyers.

If you get to a certain point, there's no pulling out of it.

If you put yourself in the shoes of Minnesota workers who are facing layoffs, or have seen their wages stagnate, the idea of the immigrant as the scapegoat, there's a certain resonance to that.

Miranda Hart

If you're naturally a certain size, I think it suits you and you can see that. There's no point in trying to conform for the sake of it. People are meant to be different shapes, and their different shapes are so interesting and, ultimately, why people fall in love with them.

If you read 1984, you'll notice that not only are certain words prohibited but what's encouraged is a system of information and informing that makes not even your private conversations sacred.

Romesh Gunesekera

If you are writing something, you automatically create a certain distance. It can be very little. Even within the same city you imaginatively have a certain distance from your subject, and at the same time, you have to have a connection.

Sy Montgomery

I think all animals have souls. I feel certain that if we have souls, octopuses have souls, too. If you grant something a soul, it demands a certain level of sacredness. Look around us. The world is holy. It is full of souls.

Kurt Vonnegut

I suggest that you work for a socialist form of government. Free Enterprise is much too hard on the old and the sick and the shy and the poor and the stupid, and on the people nobody likes. They just can't cut the mustard under Free Enterprise. They lack that certain something that Nelson Rockefeller, for instance, so abundantly has.

John Tortorella

I think our job as coaches is to make sure their heads are as clear as they can possibly be because there are so many things being talked about certain players. It's tough for a player. It's their livelihood. Are they going to pick up and move? Our job is just to try to keep them focused on the job at hand.

Eugene Debs

I realize that there are certain limitations placed upon the right of free speech. I may not be able to say all I think, but I am not going to say anything I do not think.

I personally spoke to some of them. The issue you have is there are a lot of conflicting reports out there on what actually was said and what was done. What we can establish for certain was there was inappropriate language used around fans, never directed to a fan.