#setting

Let's start with the church. As you know, it's my background, it's a natural setting for me and it's definitely my roots. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#church #definitely #know #me #natural

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle. ↗

— Christine Lavin

#business #business person #constant #down #goals

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#am #barriers #between #community #conscious

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#aside #bounds #follows #god #limited

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#accumulate #allotted #anything #appetite #down

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#besetting #capacities #danger #error #god

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants. ↗

— David Mamet

#always #comes #does #down #drama

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#biomedical #fantasy #i #i love #love

My favorite hotel is the Villa Alilla in Bali. The setting is pure bliss, overlooking the ocean of Uluwhatu; the eye line makes you feel as if you're floating on top of the ocean. ↗

— Carolyn Murphy

#bliss #eye #favorite #feel #floating