Top 1200 Certain Point Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

There needs to be a certain structure to a situation, a certain predictability that allows you to have a basis for the intuition.

My work has always been controversial within certain segments of the Asian-American community. This is a community that is generally not represented well at all on the stage, in the media, etc. So on those few occasions when something comes along, everybody feels obligated to make sure that it represents his own point of view.

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point. That's true for every film. It breaks up into phases where the thing that you have in front of you is the thing you have to address, and you can't worry about what you imagined a scene was going to like and that it came out differently, because that's what you have to make work.

There are certain storylines I shouldn't have done, there are certain actors I shouldn't have cast - guest stars, I mean.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

You can't just be letting certain people get away with certain things and not others.

There are certain exercises that you can do to let go of the emotions you create when you play a certain role. Breathing techniques.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

We all appreciated a certain aesthetic, and with that appreciation came a certain stylized presence.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

For some, the fear of coming out is so great, they can continue to live an inauthentic life. But at a certain point, the pain becomes too much to bear. For me, having one more day pass by where I wasn't living my true self seemed like such a wasted opportunity, such a wasted life.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

When certain people hear "'SNL' comedy," rightfully so, you expect it to be a certain kind of goofiness.

I have such a respect for comedy. It's a lot harder than doing drama, in my opinion; you have to have sort of an innate sense of humor. There are rules to comedy you can learn. But ultimately, it really does require a certain point of view on the world, and that really does appeal to me.

It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.

I think certain people are the way they are for certain reasons that we can't necessarily judge without knowing.

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

And as you said, everyone contributed; certain areas of material came from certain individuals.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?

The mind revolts against certain opinions, as the stomach rejects certain foods.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Certain gorillas are more evolved than certain human beings I know.

Having to look a certain way, or be a certain weight, comes from magazines, movies, the media.

There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals.

I don't mean being famous is a perk, because one knows that it's not necessarily a perk, but there are certain perks to being well-known and respected in one's field. Public perks. Like, I don't know, general friendliness and willingness to please, just to point out two.

When we go out with friends for a dinner or something and we have friends that aren't there, for no reason other than they weren't invited because we only had room for a certain amount of people, we just don't post a picture because we don't want anyone to feel left out. What's the point?

You'll see in the movie he constantly does that-he only drinks his tea a certain way, brings his own tea bags, the guy pours hot water, it's like a consistency throughout the film, but he never breaks his habits. I mean, to a point, where he has to.

I avoid writing about sex out of a certainty that no matter how grown up and matter-of-fact I might try to be, there is a snickering yet nun-terrorized 12-year-old-boy inside me who would at some point be certain to grab the reins in his hairy palms.

On every film I do, whenever there are other girls my age, I think it's definitely up to me to set the pace. That's because I've had a lot of experience and I think there's always a certain amount of professionalism that should be maintained. If I was catty or whatever, it would just make the whole shoot unpleasant. And what's the point of that?

I guess I didn't even know the word 'genre' until I did 'True Blood.' That's how naive I was, and I didn't realize that there was a point of view about certain types of TV. And so I guess I found it disappointing that there is a segment of the critical community that looks at genre as something that is separate, less than.

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.

I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

It is certain that at certain times talent entirely overcomes thought or poetry.

It's a mystery why certain people find certain things funny.

Some people have certain beliefs, and I have my own belief, and we can agree to disagree on certain things.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.

What cinema can do is the reordering of this reality from a certain chaos or from a certain order into an aesthetic dimension.

Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

Everything you do has certain significance, a certain weight. I think there is a film in everyone.

Most companies aim to get bigger. But beyond a certain point, bigness becomes synonymous with badness. Think of Big Pharma, Big Auto, Big Oil. Worse, if you are regularly described as one of the Big Four, Five, or Six in any business sector, you are probably already in the sights of regulators and lawmakers.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Thus in the beginning the world was so made that certain signs come before certain events.

Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me.

Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness even to be truly base.

I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

I think I have a sound or a certain feel in certain harmonies in the way I construct melodies.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

I surround myself with people that have certain strengths that are my weaknesses so they push me in certain areas.

I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.

Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.