Setting Quotes · Page 9

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

— Patrick deWitt

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

— Jeanne Moreau

There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

— Van Day Truex

It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

— Bertolt Brecht

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The first few touches of the game, that's kind of like setting the precedent for me.

— Lindsey Horan

We tend to take on the coloration of the setting in which we find ourselves.

— Harold S. Kushner

I think that a church should be setting the pace for social justice.

— Max Lucado

A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

— Orson Scott Card

I'm the old-fashioned type who prefers to meet a woman in a more normal setting. I don't like to feel that I'm…

— George Clooney

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little…

— Michel de Montaigne

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a…

— Laura Bates

With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct…

— Bruce Beresford

When it comes to team dynamics - on a basketball court or in a corporate setting - maintaining a positive atmosphere is…

— Rick Pitino

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

— Michael Polanyi

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important…

— Phil Keoghan

The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the…

— Louis C. K

A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The 60's has its own particular style and I think setting film in a period enables you to create your own reality…

— Lionel Wigram

well, young man," the judge began, what it biols down to this if the court so desires and if you belive that…

— Dave Pelzer

Because in traditional Hindu culture menstruation is associated with a variety of social taboos, prolonged menstrual bleeding produced conflicts within families. The…

— Ruth Simmons

I can now state that I have succeeded in operating a motive device by means of [cosmic rays]. I will tell you…

— Nikola Tesla

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It…

— David Mamet

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written…

— Laurie Foos

We do believe in setting goals. We live by goals. In athletics we always have a goal. When we go to school,…

— Spencer W. Kimball

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So…

— Arthur Plotnik

Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It…

— Charles Dickens

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is eager to enter into close relationship with the Bank for International Settlements…The conclusion is…

— Louis Thomas McFadden

Become aware of your beliefs and automatic default settings. Bring them into the light of your present, adult knowledge. Gently acknowledge that…

— Sue Thoele

You believe in equality for women and men. And that means that, not only do you believe in it kind of in…

— John Legend

Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one…

— Gaston Rebuffat

Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés…

— Amy Johnson

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high.

— Steve Harvey

For me, the biggest thing is to adjust from college to a professional setting.

— John Collins

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

— Kate Winslet

We were always setting picks and screens and looking for an open shot.

— George Mikan

Nothing relieves stress like setting things on fire.

— Chris Cannon

The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

— Eleanor Porter

Setting is my primary joy as a writer, building a world and watching people respond to it.

— Nicola Griffith

A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger.

— Henry Hudson