Quotes About Setting

Spinney chose to drop it. No one outside Vermont could be expected to understand a setting where starlit skies, complete silence, and empty downtown streets at four in the morning were the norm. Except maybe far out west. He'd heard that even a Vermonter could get lonely in Wyoming.

Like setting up a satellite dish on the roof, when you clear your psychic pathway, a lot more energy floods through your senses as more awareness comes in.

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

We all live in a local setting. But, each and everyone of us can effortlessly make a global, positive and long-lasting impact and change via the internet. -Emeasoba George

The best part about doing 'Wuthering Heights' was you were completely in that world. It could not have been done with CGI. You had to be there.

for nothing is ever so mischievous in its own place as it is out of it;

I think the location is almost as important as casting the leads of the movie. The location on 'The Purge' was crucial to that movie working.

I write what I call precinct drama, and I tend to write things set in the workplace. Having an institution which gives a workplace its distinctive identity is really important to creating something which feels different.

Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance.

The setting of 'Dragon Ball' has a sort of Chinese feel to it, but it's not necessarily limited to China. For the time period as well, exactly when it takes place is indeterminate.

my awkward silence default setting kicked in.

The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.

I love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.

In its Roman-era setting, for example, Christianity was so different that critics of the time referred to it as a "superstition" (meaning a bogus or dangerous religion).

A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

or if she's coming back from Zumba class at the Y, the thermostat ticks to a more comfortable post-workout setting.

Prior rally peaks and the 30-week MA will be the two key factors you will focus on when setting your protective buy-stops. When you set the initial buy-stop, pay less attention to the MA and more to the prior peak.

Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel and The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber—are set several centuries ago.

Given the elegance of the occasion and the spectacular nature of the setting, I should really have enjoyed the next couple of hours. I had said yes to a new experience, after all. But in truth I felt increasingly out of place among the corporate couples.

The only extra plates ever permitted are the bread and butter plates which are put on at breakfast and lunch and supper above and to the left of the forks, but never at dinner.

Good historical fiction can bring those sights, smells, and even the oppressive heat so alive, you feel that you are there,

There was in my mother's love of me something of the creative spirit of an artist -- it was her wish to produce me as a finished specimen framed in a perfect setting.