Quotes About Setting

the existing market economy has no "stable" or "neutral" setting: there is only growth or contraction.

Sit yourself down, Joan instructed as we reached the the fag-fogged, gin-scented den that was nominally her sitting room.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun, Do take a sober colouring from an eye, That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!

My wife and I just prefer Seattle. It's a beautiful city. Great setting. You open your front door in the morning and the air smells like pine and the sea, as opposed to bus exhaust.

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.

where music is heard can determine the sort of music created by the artists who perform there.

This isn't a negotiation, it's not even a conversation. I'm just setting out the terms, that's all.

The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.

A good scenario doesn't make a good science fiction story - but it's a setting within which a good science fiction story might be told.

Also, as an author, character has always been what I'm most interested in - much more so than plot or setting, although those are good things too.

If you can give your walls history, it supports the action that's happening in front of them.

Your environment (your home, your office, the magazines you read etc.) dramatically affects your levels of achievement

It is your human environment that makes climate

IT rose for them—their honey-moon—over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own.

To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

I have nice watches. I don't set them.

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

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

While I don't feel like I'm an evangelist, country music is about to give me a platform, and so keeping it topically acceptable for everybody, I hope that sets some sort of example.