#setting

My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me. ↗

— Henry Ossawa Tanner

#convey #effort #elevation #give #human

The problem is, women have stopped setting the bar high. ↗

— Steve Harvey

#high #problem #setting #stopped #women

I always try to make the setting fit the story I have in mind. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#fit #i #i always #make #mind

It's upsetting to be a man in our society. ↗

— David Mamet

#man #our #society #upsetting

We're setting up an urban farm for kids on more than 20 acres in New Orleans. We want to make this a world-class educational center for the community. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#center #community #educational #farm #kids

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it. ↗

— Nkem Mpamah

#personal-development #personal-growth #personal-performance #self-help #self-help-books

He must shape simultaneously (in an expanding creative moment) his characters, plot, and setting, each inextricably connected to the others; he must make his whole world in a single, coherent gesture, as a potter makes a pot... ↗

— John Gardner

#plot #setting #story #writer #writing

I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun. ↗

— George Catlin

#face #fair #fathers #fire #graves