Setting Quotes

When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours. Donald Hall
Three Farm Setting Summers Dinners Eat Had Days Hours Dear Noon Chicken Might Grandfather Grandmother Grandparents Cooked Kate Twelve Hen Lived
In my first book, 'Ghosts Of Manhattan,' the setting was Wall Street, and I explored the predictable nature of a bond trader inside the compensation scheme at Bear Stearns and the government regulations of Wall Street. That was about money. Douglas Brunt
Government Nature Book Money First Setting Ghosts Inside About Bear Scheme Trader Wall Wall Street Manhattan Predictable Explored Regulations Street Compensation Bond
When we began working on Parque Pumalin, rumours flew that we were establishing a nuclear waste site for the United States or, oddly for Episcopalians, which we both are, setting up a Jewish state. It would be funny if these theories weren't being taken very seriously. Douglas Tompkins
Funny Seriously Setting Jewish State State States Rumours Would Would-Be Both Taken Were Oddly Began Up Very Site Being Establishing Which Working Flew Theories United Waste United States Nuclear Jewish
I dream of working with iconic directors such as Tim Burton, Baz Luhrmann, Terry Gilliam and Wes Anderson - so I'm setting my sights pretty high! My perfect role would be in a fairy-tale period piece, and I'm quite upset all the Harry Potter movies have been made as I'd love to have been in those. Dree Hemingway
Love Made Setting Harry Harry Potter Those Sights Anderson High Dream Would Would-Be Pretty Directors Perfect Potter Piece Period Terry Tim Tim Burton Been Role Quite Upset Movies Iconic Working
I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to kill them off. Drew Goddard
Care Setting Tell Characters About Always His Off Up Just Them Her Filmmaker
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. Ed Asner
Truth Future You Seen Setting Our Our Lives Tell Relieved Find See Both Adult Until Dealt How Up Shocked Any Quite Pixar Then Working Lives Present Watched
I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off. Edward Hirsch
Love Walk Somewhere Setting Out Foot Taking Heading Adventure Sheer Off Leisurely Anywhere
Chicago is a fantastic city, and I can easily see the Olympics setting themselves right here in Chicago. Edwin Moses
Setting Easily City See Chicago Fantastic Themselves Right Here Olympics
About the gnostic writers themselves and the setting in which they lived we know little, although gnostic Christians were influential enough to be denounced at length. Elaine Pagels
Setting Enough About Writers Know Although Were Influential Which Little Length Themselves Lived Christians
I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. Elizabeth Moon
Love You Science Setting Those Astronomy Fantasy Much Really Biomedical
We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community. Emeril Lagasse
Farm Community Setting World-Class Kids More New Make Educational New Orleans Up Than Want Center Urban Acres Orleans
If you don't simply communicate with your spouse what household tasks you would like them to do, you are setting yourself up to be angry. Emily V. Gordon
Angry You Yourself Communicate Setting Would Simply Like Household Spouse Up Tasks Them Your
A classroom setting for me was an audience. Enzo Amore
Me Setting Classroom Audience
My first published novel was 'Mother of Demons,' which is simply 'The High Crusade' standing on its head. Poul Anderson placed his medieval human heroes in a futuristic alien setting; I placed my futuristic human heroes in a bronze age alien setting. Eric Flint
Age Mother Heroes Alien First Setting Anderson High Bronze Futuristic Head Simply Crusade Demons His Human Which Placed Standing Novel Published Medieval
Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry. Eric Trump
History First Nothing Setting Else Earth Respected Architectural Properties Hotel Like Most Tradition Truly Foremost Just Golf Grandeur Views Spectacular
Setting targets is very important in my life; I always have targets to fulfil. Essam El Hadary
Life My Life Important Setting Always Very Targets Fulfil
You could be an 18-year-old girl in Tokyo wondering how you could ever break into fashion or beauty, so you follow your favourite designer or editor, see what their day comprises, where they go, who they meet, how they do it... If I were setting up my own label today, I would definitely do it through Instagram. Eva Chen
Today Fashion Day You Girl Beauty Own Setting Meet Definitely Would Favourite Follow See My Own Could Through Instagram Editor How Go Were Label Up Wondering Where Break Your Tokyo Who Ever Designer
The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one. Fabrizio Moreira
Time Great Plants Long Setting Humming Peer Plentiful Jobs Kind Phrase Some Restore Superiority Economic Previous Factories Since Implies Mission Make Without Passed Were Very America American Where Wanted Anyone Again Manufacturing Who Default
When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she'd built in the middle of 20 acres of woods near Amity, I found myself immersed in a natural setting that I responded to with all my being. Floyd Skloot
Myself Together Natural Setting Immersed Beverly House She Got Built Moved Middle Being Woods Little Acres Found Round Amity Near Her
We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire. Frances Beinecke
Future Communicate Better Fire Power Energy Setting Too Digging Our Ways Signals Stuck Better Ways Smoke Always Hand Than Gestures Fuel Ground Fossil Fossil Fuel Need
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward. Francis Parkman
Great Independence Setting Additional Several Out Point Had Joseph Parties California Around Were Heard Camps Reports Oregon Farther
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Francis Schaeffer
Generation Language Church Responsibility Setting Considering Terms Gospel Understandable Communicating Each Each Generation
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. Fred Thompson
You Promises Example Setting Ourselves Promise Protecting Known Prior Expense Substitute After
We go old-school during the summer, like swimming or setting up lemonade stands. I try to teach my kids to make their own fun. Gail Devers
Try Own Swimming Setting Summer Kids Like Make Go Up Lemonade Teach Stands Fun
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment. Garry Disher
Creative Writing Action Setting Vital Take Writers Simply New Know Years Fiction Fiction Writing Place Granted Teaching Creative Writing Serious Element Deserves Set Treatment
A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting in such a way that it highlights the crime or unsettles the reader. Garry Disher
Good Crime Setting Way Evoke Trick Thriller Writer Good Writer Highlights Make Reader Anywhere Convincing Such A Way Set
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