#background

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ↗

— Yann Martel

#art #background #beyond #bounds #certainly

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#background #himself #his #however #man

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. ↗

— Bob Riley

#beliefs #binds #cherishing #differences #focused

How much can you do with two voices? You can sing thirds or you can sing fifths or you can do a background harmony. ↗

— Paul Simon

#harmony #how #much #sing #thirds

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear. ↗

— Christian Bale

#background #damn #disappear #fade #feel

In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy! ↗

— John Badham

#around #background #black #could #crazy

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#any #background #gold #islands #landscape

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make it difficult to define a common identity and create a sense of community that reaches beyond our neighborhoods to all corners of our state. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#backgrounds #beyond #common #community #corners

In Birmingham, Manchester or Liverpool there are white gangs that share the same backgrounds - they come from broken homes, completely dysfunctional, mums for the most part unable to cope, the fathers of these kids completely not in the scene. ↗

— Iain Duncan Smith

#birmingham #broken #come #completely #cope

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#enough #good #ground #instinct #just