“New York is where it is going to begin, I think. You can see it coming. The insect experts have learned how it works with locusts. Until locust population reaches a certain density, they all act like any grasshoppers. When the critical point is reached, they turn savage and swarm, and try to eat the world. We're nearing a critical point. One day soon two strangers will bump into each other at high noon in the middle of New York. But this time they won't snarl and go on. They will stop and stare and then leap at each others” ThinkingWorldTryingTwoCertainTurnsMiddleNew YorkGoes OnOne DayPopulationStrangerCriticalStaringExpertsLeapSavagesInsectsNoonBumpsDensitySwarmsGrasshoppers Author:John D. MacDonald
“I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I - ', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility.” PeopleThinkingKnowsIdeasCertainResponsibilityDutyOne DayWake UpDawnGhastlyInexorablePrams Author:Prince Charles
“I never felt I was missing anything ever until one day I stopped long enough to smell the roses outside of this little treadmill I'd gotten myself onto and I realised there were other things that I like that I didn't know. I realised I didn't like certain things in my life that I then got rid of and it just opened the door to a plethora of other things that entered.” KnowsLittlesLongEnoughCertainFeltDoorsMissingOne DayRoseSmellRealisedTreadmills Author:Sandra Bullock
“I can drive a certain car one day with great pleasure, and the next day I'll be disappointed that the experience isn't as good as the day before. These cars have moods that change with the weather, or with the driver's own moods.” I CanCertainNextPleasureCarOne DayMoodWeatherDriversDisappointedNext Day Author:Ralph Lauren
“I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.” DifferentRealDoneCertainHoursPowerfulBreakOne DayInterviewsFifteenBreaking DownSixteenReally Powerful Author:Errol Morris
“You do wrong to complain of your crosses and sufferings. Believe me, you know not what it is to suffer. God preserve you from suffering even one day what has been endured by a certain soul, whose name I must not disclose!” KnowsBelieveHas BeensSoulCertainSufferingNamesOne DayCrossesComplainingPreservesBelieve In Me Author:Paul of the Cross
“The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.” PeopleKnowsCertainHateUnderstandingIssuesMissingHigherGayOne DayClarityFearfulHatefulAlrightHate MeBetter DaysYou Hate Me Author:Emily Saliers
“I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.” WantStillsCertainGoalOne DayAwardsOscarsGrammy Author:Janet Jackson
“One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand. I saw a commentary on the Bible by a certain Rabbi Moshe Dessauer, better known as Moses Mendelssohn. An elderly man came up to me - I was then maybe 10 or 12. "What are you studying?" he said. "Dessauer's commentaries," I said. So he gave me a slap on my face.” MenSaidBookHandsRememberFacesCertainKnownStudySawsOne DayAfternoonElderlyMosesSlapCommentarySabbathRabbiSynagogueMendelssohn Author:Elie Wiesel
“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.” IfsThinkingRememberCertainNextPresidentInspireOne DaySurpriseAffectionEnormousHostilityUnimaginableGreat Presidents Author:Jon Meacham
“I don't deny," he said, "that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.” MenShouldKindSaidCertainDiesStrangePoetOne DayDenyPriests Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton