Backgrounds Quotes · Page 17

I always devise a background so that it makes what your character goes through logical and keeps up the continuity.

— Dexter Fletcher

This means I must pay close attention to the writing, but equally so to the scientific background - which sometimes means doing…

— Stanley Schmidt

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

— Damian McGinty

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.

— Christina Ricci

It's not enough to picture their outward appearance. Give them a background and sphere of influence.

— Jordan Dane

Parochial schools in the United States are also responsible for educating students from a wide range of ethnic backgrounds, including many who…

— Mark Foley

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the…

— Julian Fellowes

It just occurred to me that there are some beautiful shots [in Rent Control] with the World Trade Center in the background.

— Brent Spiner

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

For people who aren't familiar with my background, I didn't graduate high school. My career high salary was about $200,000. My last…

— Edward Snowden

How can music without any words make you think? I listen to jazz when I'm doing something else. I use it for…

— Eddie Murphy

This book [Dreams from My Father] was more of a reflection on my public life, now as a U.S. senator and before…

— Barack Obama

It will not just be conservatives or liberals, Republicans or Democrats, people of faith or unbelievers that restore America. It will be…

— Chuck Baldwin

I would love to see music reinstated as an essential part of schooling. The culture that it brings; the knowledge that it…

— Benjamin Carson

'Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The…

— Jenna Morasca

You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, some from poor families. But…

— Koushun Takami

I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be…

— Nelson Mandela

Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that…

— Howard Zinn

I want to tell you about a woman I have been married to for ten years, my wife, Ann, who speaking truthfully,…

— George Lopez

In boxing, where most of the guys are from lower-class backgrounds and have darker skin than most of the fans, one might…

— Jonathan Gottschall

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and…

— Eric Thomas

Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else…

— Brian Tracy

America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful…

— George W. Bush

The darkness grew apace; a cold wind began to blow in freshening gusts from the east, and the showering white flakes in…

— H. G. Wells

For me, music was always a second language. I didn't have a musical background, and I started studying very late, at fourteen.

— Garth Greenwell

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.

— Gabby Douglas

When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background,…

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

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

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