#background

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. ↗

— William James

#cannot #dim #doing #know #mind

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#eternity #shadow #time #upon #world

Sigmund Freud was a novelist with a scientific background. He just didn't know he was a novelist. All those damn psychiatrists after him, they didn't know he was a novelist either. ↗

— John Irving

#background #damn #either #freud #him

I come from a small town and I come from a background where we didn't have money to travel. I thought I'd have to join the military to get to Europe. So I'm thrilled to travel. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#come #europe #get #i #join

I've sung background for a couple of bands. ↗

— Randy Jackson

#bands #couple #i #sung

With literature, sometimes a book is presented in the media as being say, a Muslim story or an African story, when essentially it's a universal story which we can all relate to it, no matter what race or social background we come from. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#background #being #book #come #essentially

Barbara did the selecting and that's probably the most brilliant thing was she put together a group of women, different backgrounds, different experiences. ↗

— Star Jones

#barbara #brilliant #did #different #different backgrounds

My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. ↗

— William Kempe

#background #ballet #ballet dancer #classics #contemporary

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. ↗

— Stephen Cole Kleene

#books #gave #i #logic #mathematics

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing. ↗

— Werner Klemperer

#fact #frank #i #irrelevant #know