Setting Quotes

I wanted to be the writer in the room setting depth charges of feeling out the world with my language.You know, I had a very romantic idea about that.But I grew into being a performer.

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

For me, setting and description is a challenge. I always want to get that part just right, and sometimes the words won't work.

I'd like to help out in any way I can, especially with the younger guys in the minor leagues. But as far as setting something up, we haven't really talked about it.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family.

The Pleiadians are saying it is going to happen in a mass setting. Within probably the next year and a half, many people are just going to have an instant awakening, a remembering.

John McCain will follow the fanatics to their caves in Pakistan or to the gates of hell. What Obama wants to do is give them a place setting at the table.

If you look at Shakespeare's history plays, what the setting of monarchy allows is this extraordinary intensification of emotions and predicament.

Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.

Some men ease themselves like setting hens into the nest of death.

I debated whether or not to pin the setting down to a particular date but in the end I decided to leave things vague. It depends how fast technology improves.

I don't really have goals as far as, I want to be on a cover or something like that.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.

Looking at someone in a deployed setting, it's not in their best interest to get pregnant overseas, but if it happens, it happens.

I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Music from my iPod was setting my life to a dramatic soundtrack that only I could hear.

I grew up in Houston, in a pretty urbane setting.

For reasons I do not fully understand, some power is released through setting positive goals that would otherwise remain dormant.

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.

Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love, because suddenly all your senses are at the setting marked “on.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

When setting out on a photographic holiday, always provide yourself with two cameras, one to leave in the train going and the other to leave in the cab coming back.

Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings in the making.

I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

A creative idea will be defined simply as one that is both novel and useful or influential in a particular social setting.

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting-out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

Setting is a major aspect in writing all of my books, both in terms of natural and cultural environments.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

I'm absolutely convinced that people cannot look and read at the same time. Not any more than you can kneel and jump at the same time. It's a completely different physiological setting.

My thinking is, if we're setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

The real value of setting and achieving goals lies not in the rewards you receive, but in the person you become as a result of reaching your goals.

I want to get into producing and writing more for myself - setting up my own films and seeing what kind of personal touch I can put on movies, as opposed to just being in them.

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security

I like to keep the world, to some degree, an implied setting.

Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).

The essential component of being a DJ is setting the mood; it's playing to the context. So that if you're not able to adapt from one context to another, then you're not a DJ.

We remind ourselves that it's a hobby [The Esemblist]; nobody is setting these deadlines for us, except us.

A story comes into your head fully formed, you know exactly the place, the setting, the people. All you've got to do is get it our and written as soon as you possibly can.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.