All Quotes

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
‐‐ Lewis Mumford

A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
‐‐ Robin Trower

A certain luxury when you get to writing a novel is to have the space to have your characters just banter.
‐‐ David Benioff

A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
‐‐ Anna Louise Strong

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.
‐‐ Suki Waterhouse

A certain portion of the human race has certainly a taste for being diddled.
‐‐ Thomas Hood

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
‐‐ Kenko Yoshida

A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
‐‐ Roberta Smith

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
‐‐ Michael Cunningham

A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
‐‐ Dan Savage

A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
‐‐ Donald Trump

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

A chair, it's like a sculpture. It starts as a thought and then becomes an idea, something I might think about for years. When the time is right, I express it on paper, usually as a simple line in space. Finally, it takes shape.
‐‐ Charles Pollock

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.
‐‐ Evan Davis

A challenge always is good. Normal design does not come under the constraints of a small budget and time frame. But it has helped me to make quick and knowledgeable decisions.
‐‐ Douglas Wilson

A challenge to the right of Israel to exist can be construed as a challenge to the existence of the Jewish people only if one believes that Israel alone keeps the Jewish people alive or that all Jews invest their sense of perpetuity in the state of Israel in its current or traditional forms.
‐‐ Judith Butler

A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
‐‐ Diane von Furstenberg

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
‐‐ Jack Dempsey

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
‐‐ Pat Riley

A champion owes everybody something. He can never pay back for all the help he got, for making him an idol.
‐‐ Jack Dempsey

A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
‐‐ Andy Pick

A chance to work with the guys from Isis sounded like a lot of fun. I've always been into the atmospheric sounds they had created with that project and felt my sense of melody would meld well with theirs.
‐‐ Chino Moreno

A change in bad habits leads to a change in life.
‐‐ Jenny Craig

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
‐‐ Jurgen Moltmann

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

A change of scenery can help everything.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz

A changeling is one child substituted for another. I couldn't find anything more apt. We had to kind of fight that supernatural element in the publicity, and I offered to try and find another title, but Clint liked it, and it stayed.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

A chaplain's assistant is customarily a figure of fun in the American Army.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

A chaplain's biggest gift is to be present and just listen.
‐‐ Diane Johnson

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.
‐‐ Tim Roth

A character is a completely fashioned will.
‐‐ Novalis

A character is as much about what you do as what you say.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

A character on screen that's the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy,' they're never interesting. There's got to be an internal struggle, the duality is important to find.
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard

A character, their ability or inability to laugh at themselves should always be a very, very conscious choice. It's a very big key to the nature of a human being.
‐‐ Grant Bowler

A character wandering around asking, 'Who am I?' isn't, in and of itself, a story I'm interested in telling.
‐‐ Greg Rucka

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.
‐‐ Rex Stout

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
‐‐ Tom Glazer

A charity donkey is where you sponsor a donkey in a sanctuary and give them three pounds a month to have some donkey nuts or something.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
‐‐ Loretta Young

A charming woman is a busy woman.
‐‐ Loretta Young

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.
‐‐ George Matthew Adams

A chef and a restaurateur are different jobs: One is about pleasing people with what's on the plate; the other is about understanding the market. I'm a chef, but I think I'm a savvy businessperson, too.
‐‐ Jean-Georges Vongerichten

A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

A Cherubim or leader of a kingdom of angels is the fountain or heart of his whole kingdom, and is made out of all the powers out of which his angels are made, and is the most powerful and the brightest of them all.
‐‐ Jakob Bohme

A chic guy is in a suit. I don't care what kind of tie they wear. I don't care if they even wear a tie, as long as they can carry a suit.
‐‐ Gloria Gaynor

A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
‐‐ Jack Horner

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
‐‐ Chief Joseph