It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
With the backdrop of its geostrategic location and historical ties with the Middle East, Turkey has an essential role to play for… — Victor Ponta Copy Share Image
Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human… — Bryant Gumbel Copy Share Image
If the Fed ceases hiking, against the backdrop of still rising commodity prices, then the Australian dollar will have few reasons for… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
With the backdrop of The Salvation Army's century and a half of service to the world's poor, these songs and reflections are… — Sara Groves Copy Share Image
All my adult life, there was the Troubles. That was the backdrop of my life. — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
I can't tell how moving it is to open my email and see a picture of 1,500 Buddhist monks and nuns in… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a… — Minnie Maddern Fiske Copy Share Image
Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In most novels, the landscape, or the place, in which the story takes part is simply a backdrop to the human action. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding,… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert. — Victor Borge Copy Share Image
Dear A & M, I talked to the manager of the Beauty Bar because I definitely saw you guys getting married against… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My earliest memory is nursing and struggling to see the colored lights making up the map of the world, the famous backdrop… — Ronan Farrow Copy Share Image
What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older. — Jamie Lee Curtis Copy Share Image
The reality of the Eucharistic sacrifice has always been at the heart of Catholic faith; called into question in the 16th century,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
What interests Sam Mendes are characters and relationships, and he was a genius at giving you the freedom to create the type… — Naomie Harris Copy Share Image
We're creating multiple personas. We're creating a thespian sense of personality where we see ourselves as works of art, and we see… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
The music is used as a backdrop. I take the kundalini and I play against the notes with it. I do a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
