We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background. — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
I'm not a comedian. I didn't study sketch comedy; my background isn't that. — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner. — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
He barely knew I existed. I knew some of the same people he knew, but I was a girl in the background,… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
A person shows himself for an instant as in a photograph but clearer and in the background something which is bigger than… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish,… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The technical stuff is easy to deal with, it's just supplemental to the plight - it's not a real thing, it's just… — Eyedea Copy Share Image
The fact that wealthy people or people from privileged backgrounds may wind up in a violent terrorist organization is not new. — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
U.S. has no feudal background, so institutions that remained in place in Europe did not remain in place here. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all… — Jack White Copy Share Image
I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
If it has to be put in a box, it's a country record. But it's hard to do that, because it is… — Jessica Harp Copy Share Image
As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
I've realized that what you think of when you make a 'big movie,' if it's actually a green screen movie, it's like… — Emile Hirsch Copy Share Image
How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Future peace, prosperity and confidence depend not just on ourselves but on the success of all nations. Hence, we are all partners,… — Hassanal Bolkiah Copy Share Image
Everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has a right to discover the sacred in nature; to heal and be redeemed spiritually… — Martha Brooks Copy Share Image
But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
I often think of a quote from entrepreneur Jim Rohn: 'You are the average of the five people you spend the most… — Alexis Ohanian Copy Share Image
In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we… — Seth Moulton Copy Share Image
It is possible for two people who have wide differences of preference and opinion, of habits, of teaching, of training, of background… — Richard L. Evans Copy Share Image
They were just snapshots, nothing special, nothing particularly artistic. They were used for utility purposes. (On photographs of mundane streetscapes he had… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
... some of my people could have been left [in Africa] and are living there. And I can't understand them and they… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share Image
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image