Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above… — George W. Bush
It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this… — Benjamin McKenzie
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there… — Robert Sheckley
Don't prepare, do. Don't let Resistance sucker you into wasting months on background, foundation, planning. All that can come later. — Steven Pressfield
There was a time we decided that it was songs that were done especially from my background because of the things we were dealing with,… — Ruth Brown
The six colors, including the white background, represent the colors of all the world's flags ... this is a true international emblem. — Pierre de Coubertin
As you see something that yo want to shot and it's bearing down on you, it's important to start framing long before the subject gets… — Jay Maisel
Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you… — Jay Maisel
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene
I used to love to call L.A. when I lived in New York...Is that the Big One I hear in the background? Bye you lizard… — Bill Hicks
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher
White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background. — Jan Tschichold
The Olympic flag [] has a white background, with five interlaced rings in the centre: blue, yellow, black, green and red []. This design is… — Pierre de Coubertin
I had said that Le Guin's worlds were real because her people were so real, and he said yes, but the people were so real… — Jo Walton
In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.) — Joe Manchin
Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types of different backgroundsâ€”and… — Mark Pryor
Creating the fictional background for a game world isn't significantly different from creating a background for fiction. — John M. Ford
To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a plain background of the richest,… — Vincent Van Gogh
Everything which we loved is lost. We are in a desert .... Before us is nothing but a black square on a white background! — Kazimir Malevich
Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when there was so… — Bonnie Jo Campbell

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