Setting Quotes

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes!

He sees no need for setting apart one day in seven as a holy day, since to him all days are God's.

You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

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

Everything we did we were setting the tone for the world.

All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn't understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.

Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges.

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.

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

As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I just want to make sure that every single time I'm out there on the court I do my best, I give 100%, and see where it's going to end up next year.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Clothes should just be like a beautiful setting for a jewel: They should offset you.

To fans in a festival setting it's like a picnic. You want to have a good time with your friends in that crowd. And in the background you hear the band play, 'Oh, that's my favorite song!' everyone is there to enjoy the afternoon and that's about it.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.