Settings Quotes
82 quotes by 76 authors
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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
— James Buchan
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If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.
— Marcel Carne
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Education ultimately depends on what happens in classrooms... between teachers and learners. That is fundamental.'... 'I hope that teachers will discover the optimism and direction…
— David Perkins
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Gardens can be sharp and spiky as well as rose-embowered and honeysuckle-twined: there are corners and settings where thistles are not such an asinine taste…
— Robin Lane Fox
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To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the…
— Paul Nicklen
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The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects. This is the discipline that deals with…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care. We have each…
— Dave Barry
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I've never found an important decision made by a great organization that was made at a point of unanimity. Significant decisions carry risks and inevitably…
— James C. Collins
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Poverty cannot be accepted as a pretext and justification for the exploitation of children. It does not explain the huge global demand with, in many…
— Vitit Muntarbhorn
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Miroslav Penkov
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It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around…
— Brian Setzer
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Few are born bold. Even Napoleon had to cultivate the habit on the battlefield, where he knew it was a matter of life and death.…
— Robert Greene
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The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.
— Howard Gardner
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Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent…
— Matt Blunt
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There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
— Robert Breault
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Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more…
— Joseph Cornell
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Put your hand on your heart to keep it from flying off to the lovely magical literary island Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows have…
— Kris Radish
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Look at the very people who are involved in this. They have popped up in other settings. The great story here for anybody willing to…
— Hillary Clinton
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In knowledge-intensive business settings, where every manager has to oversee massive amounts of information as well as people, facilitating the use of psychic energy becomes…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies,…
— Dave Barry
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