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Quotes About Set out

'Control' had to do with my own life a lot, and that's why that seemed to be a film I could be the director of, because I had an emotional attachment to the whole story. And because of that experience, I feel that I can try other films. I didn't set out to become a director.
~ Anton Corbijn
I set out on a narrow way many years ago, hoping I would find true love along the broken road
~ Rascal Flatts
Taxi, monsieur?" "No, thank you." Keller slipped a five-euro note into the valet's outstretched hand and set out along the street.
~ Daniel Silva
I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.
~ Jeremy Corbyn
No offense, but I have an unpleasant suspicion that regardless of the direction in which we set out, we are bound for only one destination." "And what destination is that?" Hugh asked politely. "Trouble," Dunstan muttered. "It is always good to be in familiar territory, is it not?
~ Amanda Quick
If I find any Krauts, can I kill them?" "The Colonel said all but one," Thomas Hudson said. "Try to save a smart one." "I'll give them all IQ tests before I open up." "Give yourself one." "Mine's goddam low or I wouldn't be here," Willie said, and he set out. He walked contemptuously and he watched the beach and the country ahead as carefully as a man could watch.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I don't set out to make movies about famous people, though I guess I have. I think what I set out to do is to try to understand things that we don't understand. Or to find out what is blocking us from understanding things we should understand.
~ Davis Guggenheim
With a hasty farewell to Aunt Gertrude, the four pals set out. Brisk walking brought them swiftly out of town on the Shore Road, which followed horseshoe-shaped Barmet Bay. Looking back, they could see the docks of the harbor. Some distance ahead of them was the bridge which spanned the mouth of Willow River where it emptied into the bay.
~ Franklin W. Dixon
We didn't set out to be cool. We set out to be an extremely tight band. We wanted to defy expectations. The more negative your mindset on coming to one of our gigs, the better for us, frankly.
~ James Murphy
I found myself trying to work within the Los Angeles system. I had an agent and a manager, which I still do, and going to meetings with networks about game shows and reality shows and projects that weren't mine. It was fun, but it wasn't what I'd set out to do.
~ Tom Green
We set out to capture what was happening, and then we cut that into the series.
~ Michael Scott
Sometimes we need fellow radicals to remind us of what we, as writers, have set out to proclaim.
~ Michael Graves
road, then set out in different directions: Coryell went deep and Walsh went wide. In Coryell's system, the
~ Michael Lewis
I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of the day was something that was more of a cult movie, more of a black comedy with some horror elements in it. It kind of went over the top.
~ Neil Marshall
Thus he prayed, and Phoebus Apollo heard him, and set out from the heights of Olympus, rage in his heart, with his bow on his shoulders and his hooded quiver; the arrows clattered on his shoulders as he raged, as the god himself moved; and he came like the night. Then far from the ships he crouched, and let loose an arrow – and terrible was the ring of his silver bow.
~ Caroline Alexander
It's not that I set out to say, 'I'm going be the first assistant coach in the NBA.' That really - it was never my intent. It just kind of happened very naturally.
~ Becky Hammon
I grew up in Adelaide, Australia. No one in my family had finished high school, and I was smart at mathematics, so I became an academic and got my Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford. I didn't set out to be a businessperson.
~ Rodney Brooks
Mrs. Weston proposed having no regular supper; merely sandwiches, &c., set out in the little room; but that was scouted as a wretched suggestion. A private dance, without sitting down to supper, was pronounced an infamous fraud upon the rights of men and women; and Mrs. Weston must not speak of it again.
~ Jane Austen
I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.
~ John Sayles
I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.
~ Erika M. Anderson
Nature is an enigmatic object, an object that is not an object at all; it is not really set out in front of us. It is our soil — not what is in front of us, facing us, but rather, that which carries us.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.
~ Numbers 4:5