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Quotes About Setup

Most arguments with teenagers are setups. Your darling, simply stated, is manipulating you.
~ leman kevin
My guitar setup is inspired by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
~ Jack Garratt
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
~ Stephan Pastis
The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong.
~ David Foster Wallace
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
~ Linus Torvalds
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been different. That's not the way this setup work.
~ W. S. Merwin
My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form.
~ Ivan Reitman
This was you. It all adds up now. You invited me to the pub, and she was waiting there. She moved in after you plied me with whisky, after you gave me the card for the PI. And then my drink was spiked. You fucking set me up. Ahmed Waheed was probably never in line for the COO position
~ Unknown
Never walk into a fight when the bad guys are the ones who set it up.
~ Jim Butcher
The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.
~ Chris Zylka
Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.
~ Niklas Zennstrom
Dangerous desires birthed inside our unsettled disappointments are nothing but a setup for a takedown.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
That's the way They do you. That's the way They set you up for it. There ought to be a warning bell on the happy-meter, so that every time it creeps high enough, you get that dang-dang alert. Duck, boy. That glow makes you too visible. One of Them is out there in the boonies, adjusting the windage, getting you lined up in the cross hairs of the scope.
~ John D. MacDonald
When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase and strengthen you and your faith. Be rest assured that God is always at work in your life right now. He is directing your steps. What you thought was a setback is going to turn out to be a setup.
~ Unknown
The first part, the setup, sets the stage. The second half, the punch line, provides an unexpected ending. It's the surprising conclusion that causes laughter.
~ Unknown
The human race has been set up. Someone, somewhere, is playing a practical joke on us. Apparently, women need to feel loved to have sex. Men need to have sex to feel loved. How do we ever get started?
~ Billy Connolly
A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.
~ Mel Brooks
When writing for other comedians, someone once told me, "I want to make it my own." I'd say, "Look, the jokes are written. The relationships are written. First, do it as written. Later you can make it your own." A lot of people don't realize that without a valley, there is no peak. Without information, there is no joke. You've got to set things up.
~ Mel Brooks
children who themselves have learned the art of manipulation and control, and you have the setup for chaos.
~ Unknown
We couldn't get hold of a good cop to work this routine properly," Tarlo said. "They're all out on the streets helping decent citizens in these troubled times. So we're just going to have to do the bad cop, worse cop setup instead.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
~ Exodus 40:8