#setting

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#birthday #day #days #exactly #face

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#i #i love #inventing #love #scenarios

That was really so upsetting when you are trying to pass on some very serious knowledge and be basically, treated worse than a student coming off the street because his father pays the tuition. Come on. Give me a break. This is no school. This is a joke. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#because #break #come #coming #father

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery. ↗

— Ed Wood

#called #causing #chance #could #entire

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#attacked #culture #egypt #fact #feelings

Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it. ↗

— Steven Wright

#get #how #i #irons #notice

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit. ↗

— John Green

#also #bit #feel #ground #grounds

It's sad and upsetting when you see somebody crying hysterically, but at the same time it's real funny. ↗

— Seth Green

#funny #hysterically #real #sad #same

Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#children #off #reading #room #scene

I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#been #i #independence #independent #person