Backgrounds Quotes · Page 7

You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering.

— Nhat Hanh

Harmony would lose its attractiveness if it did not have a background of discord.

— Tehyi Hsieh

I don't have any type of sketch-comedy or stand-up background.

— Jenna Fischer

I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

— Zora Neale Hurston

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

— Jess Walter

What you don't get in the mainstream media is so much of the background material.

— Jimmy Wales

I'm not a judgmental person, so I can't comment on someone else's background.

— Christina Aguilera

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

— Christopher Meloni

Mr. McVicker instilled self-respect in those of us who were his students, because he respected us regardless of our background,

— Ahmad Jamal

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on…

— Max Levchin

While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at…

— Anonymous

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

— Milan Kundera

There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others…

— Nelson Mandela

He [Rubio] is so knowledgeable about this issue ... I'm glad to see somebody with his background step forward and say it's…

— Saxby Chambliss

It is suicidal for other runners to copy my hill sessions without adequate background.

— Pekka Vasala

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by…

— Haruki Murakami

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel…

— Paul Theroux

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth…

— Anonymous

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in…

— Carl Hiaasen

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make…

— Jeb Bush

Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background.…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name…

— Tobin Bell

I did a lot of talking - not as much background talking as a lot of people because I've never been someone…

— Edward Allen Bernero

Someone could have an outstanding comprehension of a bodybuilding diet and a background in nutrition but not have the work ethic and…

— Robert Cheeke

I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of…

— Tom Verlaine

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to…

— Milan Kundera

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of…

— Edmond Jabes

I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before…

— Jay Maisel

Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton…

— Katharine Sergeant Angell White

I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy.…

— Jon Stewart

This is why God created so many different religions: to be training grounds to make a path for every people, culture, custom,…

— Sun Myung Moon

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

— Amy Lee

I'm Cuban-American, everybody says. I have a Cuban background, Cuban blood.

— Gio Gonzalez

I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

— Tim Harford

We want people who come from humble backgrounds and have a need to win.

— Douglas Leone

I felt better being in the background. That's the way I like it.

— Stefan Edberg

But I had a very traditional background as well. My parents are neat people.

— Uma Thurman

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

— Sally Ride

I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

— Adam Jones