Backgrounds Quotes

935 quotes by 827 authors

By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy. — Jeremy Grantham
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. — Alan Guth
Glacier Gray is an unobtrusive gray that contrasts and enhances; bouncing off other shades without taking away from them as it slips into the background… — Leatrice Eiseman
Coming from an African background, obviously the foundation of the family home is education, probably because my parents had to work a lot harder for… — Tinie Tempah
Against the background of the Obama administration' s negotiating what can turn out to be the most catastrophic international agreement in the nation's history, to… — Thomas Sowell
I am a proud product of Irish golf and the Golfing Union of Ireland and am hugely honoured to have come from very rich Irish… — Rory McIlroy
I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background. — Rickie Lee Jones
Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming… — Marya Hornbacher
I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy. — Gabby Douglas
Man, fountains pen are a pain to use, drawing backgrounds is a also a pain... Drawing manga really is a pain. In short living is… — Hideaki Sorachi
I welcome anyone that wants to come into the WWE and try it, because, I was the type of person that was not welcome with… — The Miz
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone… — Susanna Tamaro
It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled… — Fred Hoyle
I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join… — Chris Isaak
See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic… — John Thomas Sladek
Very early in my life I took the question of the relation of art to truth seriously: even now I stand in holy dread in… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds… — Henry David Thoreau
I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds. — Ennio Morricone
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity. — Sarah Manguso
Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process… — Adam Savage

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