I modelled in my 20s, and it was an obsessive time. I was under pressure to look a certain way.

Only a certain number of people go to a store over the period of a year. When a person sees my record on the shelf, it eliminates someone else’s record from being sold. It’s about...

A certain way to have financial security in life is not enough savings, but enough ability.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and...

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed...

Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person.

Guess in my brain I have a figurative ‘man card’ that’s got certain punches that need to be punched.

I really practiced hard and got to a certain level of technical proficiency. I overcame some of my limitations. I was a hard-working, dedicated bassoonist, but I have to say I’m not a natural musician.

We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about...

There’s a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

There’s a certain clubbiness to the idea that you’re an ex-president. You’re no longer a politician. You’re a statesman.

It would be a mistake to link anything that Israel does to a certain circumstance. And it is a mistake to feel comfortable in any circumstance just because Israel did not act on it.

But I don’t think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don’t have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don’t want kids hearing, and I’m not changing because they think it’s going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million...

While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny...

The unity in any painter’s work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way… style.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don’t always translate to English.

I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

The leg system of the beach animals works because of a combination of certain lengths of tubes. Because of the proportion of lengths, the animals walk smoothly. You could say that this range of numbers...

There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.

At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don’t do. It’s just a different thing. And it sort of steers my...

I didn’t have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn’t have been...

A lot of people watch ‘Community,’ but DVR viewings only count if you watch within a certain time.

In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.

It’s cool when people notice that you make an effort to live certain values.

There’s something special about racing in real streets. The ‘artificial’ circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own – Barcelona, Monaco, and now...

There are writers’ rooms that will write episodes all together, who will break into little groups and write certain scenes. Everyone’s process can be a little bit malleable. Everyone tries to get into a groove...

At a certain point he was very popular, from THE RAVEN. He was never fully appreciated, never made the money, and you know he was looked upon with admiration by some people, but also as...

I’ve learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You’re basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour’s worth.

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because...

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

Cooking certain dishes, like roast pork, reminds me of my mother.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

If you don’t have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this...

As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.

I’ve aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

Obviously talent gets you to a certain point, but it’s what you do with it, how you handle.

Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they’re sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I’d dance at...

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it’s all quite closely intertwined.