Backgrounds Quotes · Page 4

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

— Barbara Jordan

I come from rather an international, or in other words, a cosmopolitan background.

— George Blake

Surely words are just the background music when passion pounces on a soul.

— Andrew Sean Greer

A stage setting is not a background; it is an environment.

— Robert Edmond Jones

The background looks like a lot of red cards.

— Arsene Wenger

I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.

— Amy Ryan

Bluegrass is really a big part of my background.

— Travis Tritt

My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

— Connie Britton

Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor,…

— Christopher Walken

I come from a violent background. So I became hard. I realised that I had made myself that way to deal with…

— Mickey Rourke

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send…

— Kevin Sorbo

A lot of people don't know that my background is completely classical. For a while there, I was all about Moliere and…

— Katy Mixon

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us…

— Alexander Wang

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

— Thomas Carlyle

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which…

— Alan Guth

I never work with music. I hate background music, always did. I only like music in the foreground, meaning, deliberately listen to…

— David Hockney

The notion of rights is linked with the notion of sharing out, of exchange, of measured quantity. It has a commercial flavor,…

— Simone Weil

Girls, you know it's all just a game to them, relationships. Just go around stomping on everyone… I mean, look at this…

— Robert Pattinson

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late…

— Roger Waters

I'm a great believer in the fact that as you get to know someone, it matters not what religious background they have,…

— Condoleezza Rice

I came from a very different sort of background and pedigree from the people who were on "The Daily Show". I was…

— Aasif Mandvi

I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool,…

— Elia Suleiman

You put a group of people in that come from a variety of backgrounds and who are out there in the world…

— Allison Grodner

I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to…

— Chris Isaak

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…

— Edward Said

This is not a matter of subjective theory, but of plain, historical fact. If there had never been a nation of Israel,…

— Derek Prince

I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right…

— Jane Green

[James] Comey's got a good background but there's nothing there, so far as it appears. Nothing there. So he wrote the letter…

— William Weld

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

Talent is important, and some background as well. This really is not beginner's school. I want to work with people that have…

— Vlatko Stefanovski

Of course there's a value in a storyboard if you do a big - let's say an action movie and actors have…

— Werner Herzog

Our surroundings are not contained by name and form. You are neither the body nor the mind, these are limits you identify…

— Jean Klein

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

— Gustave Flaubert

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

— Annie Proulx

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist

— Robin Williams

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

My background was in performing originally.

— Cy Coleman

Work all paled into the background as soon as I had a baby.

— Chris Hemsworth

I'm just a husband waltzing in the background.

— Bruce Greenwood

I have a lot of friends with different backgrounds.

— Michael G. Rubin