“The poet, like the lover, is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is under a certain compulsion to do so.” KnowsFeelsPersonsCertainPoetLoversCompulsionReconcile Author:Babette Deutsch
“I come from down south, where vegetation does not know its place. Honeysuckle can work through cracks in your walls and strangle you while you sleep. Kudzu can completely shroud a house and a car parked in the yard in one growing season. Wisteria can lift a building off its foundation, and certain terrifying mints spread so rapidly that just the thought of them on a summer night can make your hair stand on end.” KnowsDoeEndsNightCertainHouseSleepGrowingCarBuildingHairWallSummerSeasonsFoundationSouthSpreadLiftsCracksYardsMintShroudsVegetationSummer NightsYour WallWisteria Author:Bailey White
“Like an hourglass with a certain number of grains of sand within it, God has appointed your life to last only a certain number of days, and you have absolutely no idea how many there are.... In God's presence, consider: I have no idea when my life will end. All I know is that death will come for me eventually. Am I doing anything to prepare for the real possibility that God may call me, sooner rather than later? If he called me into eternity today, would I be ready?” IfsKnowsMayIdeasRealEndsTodayLastsCertainNumbersPossibilityReadyEternityNo IdeaSandCall MeGrainGrains Of SandGod's PresenceHourglass Author:Patrick Madrid
“My first decade of living in a metropolis was like, I was a people watcher. It meant the world to me to talk to strangers. I got excited about the fifth time I'd see the same person in the same bodega. I loved getting to know a certain clerk or barista. It took on a whole big meaning for me because of that atomization that suburban people do start to feel.” PeopleKnowsWorldFeelsFirstsPersonsWholeBigsCertainExcitedStrangerDecadesFifthClerksWatchersMetropolisBarista Author:Debra Granik
“Americans have always held firm, because we have always believed in certain truths. We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity and returns to strike us again. We know that when the work is hard, the proper response is not retreat, it is courage. And we know that a great ideal of human freedom entrusted to us in a special way and that the ideal of liberty is worth defending.” IfsKnowsWayHumansHardCertainEvilLibertySpecialReturnGainsIdealsResponseStrikesFirmRetreatAlways BelieveGreat IdeaAudacityHuman Freedom Author:George W. Bush
“There are things we know and things we don't know about food. But there are certain basic things we do know, and that's what I've tried to build these rules on.” KnowsCertainBasic Things Author:Michael Pollan
“Sometimes you can do certain things on stage, or even in a TV series, and people see the look on your face and they know what you mean, so you can get away with certain things. But if you can't create that look on an animated character, which is essentially a puppet, the line will hit the audience in a very bad way.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLooksMeanSometimesCharacterFacesCertainCan DoLinesAudienceStageTvsSeriesGet AwayYour FaceAnimatedPuppetsTv Series Author:Jerry Seinfeld
“When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.” PeopleKnowsWellsFactsHappensFacesCertainLostBitsToo MuchSickThings HappenFamiliarTunesThreshold Author:Robert Greene
“Eat your vegetables. Brush your teeth. Sweat once in a while. Get plenty of rest. Don't smoke. Laugh more. There are certain tenets to health that are pretty commonsensical and that we all know we should practice routinely.” KnowsShouldCertainLossPracticeLaughingTeethPlentySmokeSweatVegetablesBrushesWeight Loss Book:Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers Source: Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar - Your Brain's Silent Killers
“A film has a beginning, middle, and an end. There is a certain amount of time that you have to embody these people. You know the entire story arch. But on TV, you have to let your guard down. You don't know how long the show is going to last. There is this excitement that comes with developing a character long-term.” PeopleKnowsLongEndsCharacterStoriesShowsLastsFilmCertainTermKnow HowMiddleTvsAmountDevelopingExcitementLong TermArches Author:DJ Qualls
“My first kiss was with a girlfriend. And it was at a party. I think I was hopeful that that would happen, but I didn't plan it. You know, honestly, I think if there's a little too much planning, it's almost just like self-sabotage. Because then, you want it to go a certain way and it just doesn't. And then you're like, 'Awww, why!?!'” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWantFirstsLittlesSelfHappensCertainPartyToo MuchPlansKissingHonestlyPlanningGirlfriendHopefulFirst KissSabotageSelf SabotageMy First Kiss Author:Tyler Blackburn
“You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.” ThinkingKnowsShouldPersonsEnoughUsedCertainLanguageTechnologyImpactEvolve Author:Aimee Mullins
“Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.” ThinkingKnowsJobsCertainBornWifeMilitaryAppreciateSeparationHardestSensitivityHardest JobMilitary Family Author:Lester Holt
“Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.” IfsKnowsWayNeedsLooksKindCertainActorsPiecesFitSceneBiggerHonestlyPuzzlesPuzzle Piece Author:Sarah Shahi
“People are always talking about freedom. Freedom to live a certain way, without being kicked around. Course the more you live a certain way, the less it feel like freedom. Me, uhm, I can change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else. I don't know who I am most of the time.” PeopleKnowsWayFeelsPersonsI CanCertainCoursesSleepTalkingWho I AmGoing To Sleep Author:Richard Gere
“I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantIdeasDifferentCertainIndividualInterestingCorruptionAccidentsAcquireVery InterestingPower Corruption Author:David Morrissey
“I know it's bad to generalize, but when you think about billionaires, you just think this guy is going to walk into a room and just demand things to be a certain way.” ThinkingKnowsWayGuyCertainWalksRoomsDemandThis GuyBillionaire Author:Sabrina Bryan
“There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.” PeopleKnowsHardTodaySchoolRememberPoliticalCertainSportsTermDifferencesFireGroupsTeamMovedBusComplaintsTruckPolitical CorrectnessReferringSidewalkSquirrelsDifferentiateSports TeamKittiesProfessional SportsSchool Bus Author:Rosalie Maggio
“I have a certain way of thinking where I see something, and I know that I want it and I make up my mind - and that's pretty much all there is to it. It was like, This is what I want to do, and I'm going, and everything's going to work out. I'm going to be an actress. There was no way around it.” ThinkingKnowsWayWantMindCertainWork OutActressesGoing To WorkWay Of Thinking Author:Ashley Greene
“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.” KnowsNeedsSometimesAgeYoungCertainActorsGrowsYoung Age Author:Elias Koteas
“Buddhism is the study of power initially. It takes a certain amount of power to even know your potential - to have the sense that you can change the way you perceive.” KnowsWayCertainStudyBuddhismAmountBuddhistPerceiveCosmology Author:Frederick Lenz