Quotes of: Certain-point Keyword

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.

Jerzy Kosinski

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

Michael Tippett

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.

Oliver Ellsworth

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Steven Pinker

In Japan, I am famous in certain special circles - mainly as someone who is trying to break down and enlighten the conventions of Japanese art.

Takashi Murakami

A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.

Aesop's Fables

I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.

Anna and the French Kiss

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

The Ascent of Man

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Anathem

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

The Art Spirit

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

Thom Yorke

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

Walter Bagehot

Good problems and mushrooms of certain kinds have something in common; they grow in clusters.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

My Head of House said I lacked certain necessary qualities...like the ability to behave myself.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All life is preoccupied with death. Death is the only certain future. Yet in the face of reason, everyone holds out hope for the highly improbable.

The Human Script

Dancing takes a certain lightness, a spring in the step, an elasticity in the calves; a kind of , or alternatively a leavening element of self-proclaiming stupidity in one’s make-up.

Havisham

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

Holy Bible: King James Version

Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1)

Holy Bible: New International Version

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

Happiness, Like Water

Don't be surprised that I value prejudice, observe certain conventions, seek power--it's because I know I live in an empty society.

The Insulted and Humiliated

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence? ...The term was .

I Hunt Killers