#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

News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#actually #background #conflict #darker #day

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together. ↗

— Andy Taylor

#big #felt #future #huge #legitimate

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space. ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

#background #cannot #characters #context #empty

...consider yourself a functional character in someone else's novel - a background character - a person on the street - that's the perspective ... ↗

— John Geddes

#perspective #writing-advice #writing-process #writing-advice

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#being #come #hideous #i #kill

My background is in physics, so I was the mission specialist, who is sort of like the flight engineer on an airplane. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #engineer #flight #i #like

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds. ↗

— Sally Ride

#had #nasa #only #quite #scientific

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. ↗

— Sally Ride

#background #commander #crew #pilot #shuttle