#set

If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#ask #asking #beings #breathing #flowing

I'm doing a lot of stand-up, but not like when you're living in New York and you can do three sets a night and it's your life, and you sleep all day and you wake up and you eat with a bunch of other comics and then get ready for the night. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#bunch #comics #day #doing #eat

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product. ↗

— Peter Singer

#central #ethics #fairly #human #like

Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.' ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#editor #feel #figure #give #going

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ↗

— Lewis B. Smedes

#discover #forgive #free #prisoner #set

Because of my voice, speaking words which had been carefully chosen, women had used money they had set aside for other purposes to buy war bonds. ↗

— Kate Smith

#because #been #bonds #buy #carefully

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. ↗