Backgrounds Quotes · Page 11

In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and…

— Carl Honore

Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background.

— Paul Giamatti

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the…

— Helmut Newton

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

— Avril Lavigne

A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time…

— Eboo Patel

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

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose,…

— Jeff Sessions

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

— Lysa TerKeurst

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

— Junaid Jamshed

I have always believed in dialogue and in nonviolence, and if you look at my background you will see that it has…

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered…

— Gary Snyder

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.

— Jeremy Grantham

I work in several different groups of pictures which act on and with each other - ranging from several abstracted manners to…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

They said, OK, nine [Louis] Brandeis's is too much, but one is OK. So, with friends like that, and so forth. But,…

— Jeffrey Rosen

Auto da Fay reveals the trickles of a creative sensibility that later became a tide, but essentially, Weldon the writer emerges only…

— Joanna Murray-Smith

Chess never has been and never can be aught but a recreation. It should not be indulged in to the detriment of…

— Paul Morphy

In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the…

— David Whyte

America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of…

— Ronald Reagan

We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often…

— Barack Obama

All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

— Damian McGinty

People prefer to be with people like themselves. For all the celebration of 'diversity,' it's sameness that dominates. Most people favor friendship…

— Robert J. Samuelson

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very…

— Yann Martel

Evangelicals come from all ethnic and racial backgrounds, but nearly 90 percent of Americans who call themselves evangelicals are white.

— Christian Smith

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