Setting Quotes · Page 27

The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting…

— A. A. Milne

Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I don't think in terms of failure…I don't feel like anyone outside of me should be setting limitations. People should be encouraged…

— Whoopi Goldberg

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling…

— Drew Roy

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a…

— Maya Angelou

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing…

— Jordan Henderson

Setting an example is everything to all. If we're going to do something, do it spectacularly or don't do it at all.

— Edwin Mamerto

Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to…

— Bruce Feirstein

Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my…

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm…

— Barack Obama

I don't write non-fiction because I get bored. Some of my writing is autobiographical, but not the way readers imagine. I use…

— Sefi Atta

Clifford paints true-to-life characters with the same gritty touch as the best of Dennis Lehane. Straightforward and edgy, Lamentation gnaws with nail-biting…

— Robert Dugoni

Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly…

— Xi Jinping

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that…

— Tom Araya

If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Luckily, I'm setting records without even thinking about it, without having the pressure of having to do as well as the person…

— Mariel Zagunis

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you…

— William Hazlitt

We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars.

— George C. Marshall

Setting San Francisco on a course to sustainability will require all of us to work in concert on a number of ambitious…

— London Breed

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming…

— Morris Gleitzman

The talent that has to be learned is finding out what someone's passion is and setting them up to realize that. You…

— Pete Cashmore

I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school…

— Bobby Cannavale

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting…

— Lucy Powell

The Rafale deal narrative that the Congress is setting is a propaganda that has international ramifications.

— Nirmala Sitharaman

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and…

— Al Yankovic

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

— Shawnee Smith

“Your flour is your dream and your bread is your fulfillment. The environment in which your flour is baked can influence the…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

— Li Shangyin

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to…

— Drew Goddard

If character is the foreground of fiction, setting is the background, and as in a painting's composition, the foreground may be in…

— Janet Burroway

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious…

— Anonymous

I don't think there is one size that fits all [] I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the…

— Steve Ballmer

Goal setting is another integral part of achieving any dream. It is what takes a supernatural vision into the material realm where…

— Phil Pringle

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

— Agnes Smedley

Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of…

— Eben Pagan

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

— Elsa Maxwell

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and…

— Evo Morales

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what…

— Justin Zackham

The FDA is redefining birth control as abortion. The FDA is setting the bar higher for this kind of drug.

— Patty Murray

What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

— Edgar Degas