#background

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#background #casual #day #divide #elevator

You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away. ↗

— Curtis Stone

#back #background #day #far #far away

Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#both #common #context #cultural #dante

It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#change #grown #having #humble #i

Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#active #any #around #background #cricket

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#background #becomes #clear #itself #making

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#background #foreground #landscape #mind

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#baptist #grew #i #strong #up

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners. ↗

— Adam Rickitt

#been #before #better #business #business leaders

You've got to step up, Emme. They need to hear your voice, hear you. You're better than being stuck in the background. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#eulberg #inspirational #music #step-up #take-a-bow