Quotes of: Certain-point Keyword

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for...

Love

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in certain ways. And I wrote, 'I don't think Chaucer had any idea why he did any of these things. That ...

A Circle of Quiet

There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people who are attracted by the countryside cherish fond memories of certain springs, certain woods, certain ponds, certai...

Selected Short Stories

But he needed to be certain before committing to something so—the word, certain, arrested his thoughts. A person can’t be absolutely certain about anything, not certainty in the sense of a mathematical proof. He wasn’t certain about Kate. He sa...

Triple Threat

The worst is not always certain but it's very likely.

French

I don't think I can give you an answer. Oh, I could give you Freudian reasons with fancy talk, and that would be right as far as it went. But what you want are the reasons for the reasons, and I'm not able to give you those. Not for the others, anywa...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Rob Gordon: All three of us writers, we all experience music autobiographically. Rob Gordon: I think a lot of people do. Rob Gordon: So I'll have certain songs that mark certain times in our life and I think we're not rare that way. Rob Gordon: Like ...

High Fidelity

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Albert Camus

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that, beyond a certain age, a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.

Arthur Smith

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I suppose sequels are inevitable for a writer of a certain age.

John Updike

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

Lena Headey

You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.

Rufus Wainwright

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

Mark Morris

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

Jean Anouilh

I'm cool with where I'm at. It's certain things I wanna do to be better, but I'm good.

Jazmine Sullivan

Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary.

Penn Jillette

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.

Cynthia Breazeal

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

Mila Kunis

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

Imogen Cunningham

To a certain extent I suppose all actors are big kids.

Dominic Cooper