Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.
Katharine Hepburn

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
John Updike

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
John Updike

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart Mill

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.
Jimmy Buffett

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.
Jimmy Buffett

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.
Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
Lord Byron

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
Bertrand Russell

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

The different ness of races, moreover, is no evidence of superiority or of inferiority. This merely indicates that each race has certain gifts which the others do not possess.
Carter G. Woodson

There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you put on a uniform, there are certain inhibitions that you accept.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

It was kind of ridiculous to carry it up to a certain point and then drop the ball or the bomb, like quitting the band right after we had signed to Virgin.
Elliott Smith