Setting Quotes

Claustrophobia makes it the perfect setting.

— Jodie Foster

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

— Nancy L. Zimpher

Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.

— William Wordsworth

“Trouble was her default setting.”

— C.J. Daugherty

“Normal is a setting on a washing machine.”

— Christopher Barzak

I never saw myself as trend-setting.

— Peggy Lipton

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

— Enzo Amore

Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

— Jeanne Moreau

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

— Van Day Truex

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

— Michel de Montaigne

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

— Harold S. Kushner

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

— Max Lucado

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

— Bertolt Brecht

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together…

— Noel Redding

Being unique is what's cool. Normal? What's normal? A setting on a washing machine. No one wants to be that.

— Ashley Purdy

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then…

— Allen West

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough…

— Ronald Reagan

Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting…

— Sigmund Freud

You can really help support a character if you understand the setting. So for that reason I generally write about Philadelphia.

— Lisa Scottoline

I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer…

— Chloe Grace Moretz

It wasn't long after I began writing Star Wars that I realized the story was more than a single film could hold.…

— George Lucas

An essential part of true listening is the discipline of bracketing, the temporary giving up or setting aside of one's own prejudices,…

— M. Scott Peck

Building a business is like building a home. If the foundation rests on an unstable setting or is constructed with subpar materials,…

— Thomas J. Stanley

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk…

— Tove Jansson

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their…

— Eric Clapton

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Secretly, the Bush administration is pursuing a policy to expand NAFTA politically, setting the stage for a North American Union designed to…

— Jerome Corsi

At the end of the day, it is about the album and book and also about setting the record straight, because 'American…

— Corey Clark

“I make a habit of setting aside some time each evening to take out my knitting and work quietly on it, happily…

— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church…

— Marty Stuart

In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the planners both private and public, need to give…

— Urie Bronfenbrenner

To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same…

— Robert Herrick

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then…

— Aleister Crowley

Making art now means working in the face of uncertainty; it means living with doubt and contradiction, doing something no one much…

— Anonymous

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We need to set goals for ourselves. Start today...if you don't have any goals, make your first goal getting some goals. You…

— Melody Beattie