“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMindBookRunningJobsCertainStuffChangedProveEvidenceDecidedLogicMathCertaintyUncertaintyReasoningBuddyOntologySloppyYou Changed Author:David Auburn
“I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They won't like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it's just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I'd say I do probably 75% of my stuff.” StoriesBigsCertainStuffFireImpossibleBuildingLet MeGet Insurance Author:Alex O'Loughlin
“In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.” WayKidsCertainStuffConsidering Author:Jhonen Vasquez
“Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.” WritingFirstsFactsCertainStuffSatisfiedFinite Author:Rose Tremain
“At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. We chose to have more stuff, the stuff sold to us through those beckoning adjectives-bigger, better, faster: Jet Skis, extra cars, second homes, motor homes, towering slab TVs, if not the time to enjoy them or to enjoy less commodified pleasures.” IfsHomeCertainStuffEnjoyPleasureCarTvsBiggerFasterExtrasMore TimeVacationConsumerismMotorJetForksOverconsumptionAdjectivesSkisBeckoningFork In The RoadSlabsBigger Better Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I've been collecting since college, .. When we're children, we're taught to draw in the lines, use certain colors. In this art, the talent and the creativity we had as children hasn't been squashed. The early stuff is still there.” ChildrenArtStillsUseCertainStuffLinesCreativityTalentTaughtCollegeColorDrawsCollecting Author:Beverly L. Kaye
“I wouldn't want to be someone's roommate, that's for sure. You can't do certain things, you can't leave the bathroom door open...you can't put your feet on the couch, you can't hide stuff in the couch.” WantCertainStuffDoorsFeetBathroomCouchesRoommate Author:J. B. Smoove
“I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries. Maybe it's helped me attain a certain fluidity with my style.” CertainStuffMysteryCenturyStyleCollegeAwful19th CenturyDickensFluidity Author:Josh Lieb
“I enjoy being given a certain amount of freedom in order to interpret or to come up with stuff, but I do enjoy collaboration. I seek and thrive on projects where I am going to learn from the people I'm working with.” PeopleCertainOrderGivenStuffEnjoyAmountProjectsCome UpThriveCollaboration Author:William Kempe
“The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.” TryingDoeArtCertainStuffPrideDefinitionsChineseAccomplishedPocketsThreadRevealingDictionaryTextureNeedlesSockVerbsHousewifeImitatingConcealment Author:Daniele Vare
“I feel a certain amount of freedom just cruising to the liquor store to get water or whatever. It just feels good. It makes me feel young getting on the bike and - again, not going crazy, I do bunny-hops and I'll hit some curbs and stuff - but just feeling like a kid again.” FeelsFeelingsKidsYoungCertainStuffWaterCrazyAmountStoresFeel GoodHopsBikeLiquorCurbBunniesGoing CrazyLiquor Stores Author:Matt Skiba
“People see me as a person who can make them some money, which makes it hard to make real friends. I'm asked to do a lot of stuff for free - to wear certain clothes, turn up to events - people use you to make money. I think that's why I tend to jump into relationships.” PeopleThinkingPersonsRealHardUseCertainTurnsStuffEventsClothesMaking MoneyReal Friends Author:Sophie Monk
“There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.” KnowsNeedsTwoBigsHappensCertainStuffBattleStandingScriptsDramaticKitchenSequenceFridges Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I do generally all my stuff [stunts] except for motorcycles and cars, that stuff I don't know how to do as well as certain people do.” PeopleKnowsWellsCertainStuffKnow HowCarMotorcycle Author:Channing Tatum
“All that stuff about my father and my childhood is interesting up to a certain point, but I kind of capsized with the family drama a long time ago. Now I want to get away from that. Not that I won't return to it, but a certain element has been exhausted, and it feels like why regurgitate all this stuff?” WantFeelsKindLongHas BeensCertainFatherStuffInterestingChildhoodReturnDramaElementsLong TimeGet AwayExhaustedLong Time AgoFamily Drama Author:Sam Shepard
“I have a tendency to really stuff things — like, I don't really express certain feelings.” KnowsFeelingsCertainStuffTendencies Author:Jack Osbourne
“I'm quite certain that the audience that I've got for my stuff don't listen to the lyrics.” CertainStuffAudience Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“Our health and well-being is something that we can almost control, to a certain extent. We can choose to eat healthy, we can choose to think positively, and we can choose to have good posture. All this stuff makes a difference, and the way that you look and feel, and your confidence.” ThinkingWayFeelsWellsLooksCertainStuffDifferencesHealthyWell BeingMaking A DifferencePositivelyPostureThink PositivelyGood Posture Author:Bethany Hamilton
“I grew up with synthesizers and weird, spacey music-hip-hop, R&B, modern rock-that I heard on the radio. That's influenced the way I play music. It's natural for me to go with what I feel. If I didn't let that other stuff out and stuck to a certain format, I would feel like I was missing out on something. I'm just enjoying my ride and being who I am.” IfsWayFeelsPlayCertainStuffEnjoyNaturalHeardModernRocksMissingGrewGrew UpHip HopRadioStuckWho I AmHipsHopsFormatMissing OutSynthesizers Author:Gary Clark, Jr.
“It's hard to describe to people how terrible it was when you could only watch cartoons at a certain time in your life. But no, I would watch all of them - the Warner Bros. cartoons and the Bugs Bunnys and then the Tex Avery stuff. Looking back on it, they were so incredibly subversive for their time. You'd think, "Oh, they're just making jokes and this or that." But when you watch them as an adult, you think, "Oh no, they were talking about some pretty deep stuff."” PeopleThinkingHardCertainStuffTalkingWatchesTerribleJokesAdultsLooking BackCartoonBugsSubversiveBrosWarner Bros Author:Jon Hamm
“If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.” IfsWritingI CanIdeasHappensCertainStuffSeeingStageComicHanging OutStuff Happens Author:Sarah Silverman
“In the years that Ive seen concerts, when Ive paid to see somebody I want to see, there would be a certain amount of songs Id want to hear. So whether its stuff I want to play every night or not - or stuff Ive been playing for years or stuff you get tired of playing - you have to play what people pay for and make it fair for them.” PeopleWantYearsPlayWould BeNightCertainSongStuffPayAmountFairsPaidTiredConcertsEvery Night Author:Toby Keith
“Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.” BigsCertainStuffWatchesFansHorrorAliensGenreClassicScareHorror GenreExorcist Author:Katharine Isabelle