Backgrounds Quotes · Page 11

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

— Rickie Lee Jones

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.

— Anonymous

Long necks. The thrust of the head in a certain position. The way the fingers work, fabrics work. It's all part of…

— Lillian Bassman

Don't wait around for your life to happen to you. Find something that makes you happy, and do it. Because everything else…

— George Mason

I don't think of my music as something that works well in the background. And because a lot of it isn't in…

— Max Tundra

I want to make sure that I represent a variety of backgrounds and that represents the reality out here in the world.

— Vijay Iyer

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

— Rand Paul

I come from a dancing background, and I know it's stereotypical, but I would dance because I wasn't comfortable speaking to people.

— Carrie Ann Inaba

Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn…

— Regina Agyare

I'm the girl who is lost in space, the girl who is disappearing always, forever fading away and receding farther and farther…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect…

— Robert Crais

No one in my family had a retail or marketing background. They were professionals. They didn't understand just what I was doing…

— Andrea Jung

I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff coming out of the…

— Michael Patrick Jann

Nothing about character is hereditary. Everyone, regardless of social background, financial status, race, or sex, enters the world with an equal opportunity…

— Michael Josephson

The home is a woman's natural background… From the beginning I tried to have the policy of the store reflect as nearly…

— Hortense Odlum

There's a great variety of people in Washington, but I think because of the great concentration of people in New York, that…

— Sonia Sotomayor

It is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing…

— Henry James

Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But…

— Helen Caldicott

When a being such as myself who came from a rather difficult background is to 'work' here on earth, dimensionally as part…

— Timothy Treadwell

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of…

— Lee Kuan Yew

But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just…

— Haruki Murakami

I think there's a longer shortlist for that particular position and others.Highly qualified men and women who have come to Bedminster, come…

— Kellyanne Conway

In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions…

— Margaret Thatcher

The war is definitely in the background, only referred to in radio news blips and conversation. I think, ultimately, this film is…

— Elijah Wood

I'm a boys' girl! I come from an army background and I haven't known what being a 'good Indian girl' means.

— Anushka Sharma

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

— Jack Vance

My background is advertising: I moved to New York from London in 1998 to start up the U.S. office of ad agency…

— Cindy Gallop

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

— Alexander Chee

As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that…

— William Baziotes

I was kind of an innocent hayseed from a middle-class, utterly nonintellectual background.

— Julia Child

I came out of Capitol Hill. Well, that's just not an ordinary background for a writer of the ordinary American sort.

— Gore Vidal

Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert … Before us is nothing but a black square on a…

— Kazimir Malevich

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

— Walter Gilbert

Direct selling provides an opportunity open to absolutely everyone, regardless of background, specialized skills or capital worth.

— Paul Zane Pilzer

When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against…

— Anton Chekhov

In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together…

— Sophia Bush

I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither…

— Victoria Chang

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

— Charlie Brooker

The simplest and most effective way to sanctity is to disappear into the background of ordinary every day routine.

— Thomas Merton

Richard Burton is my number one idol. One, because we come from very similar backgrounds and two, because of his fantastic talent.

— Aneurin Barnard