#setting

What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#american #big #book #conspiracy #family

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail. ↗

— Donald Cram

#career #columbus #compounds #could #felt

I like the fact you can spend two hours setting up a scene that will only last a couple of seconds. And I like just sitting around and dozing between scenes! ↗

— Mackenzie Crook

#between #couple #dozing #fact #hours

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#friendship #increases #life #setting #setting sun

The parent knows instinctively that if they're working and setting an example for their child that means that child is more likely to be in school, more likely to stay out of trouble and more likely to complete their education. ↗

— John Engler

#complete #education #example #instinctively #knows

I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting. ↗

— Michael Irvin

#around #because #clean #clean up #demons

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years. ↗

— Jay Kay

#been #comes #could #donkey #every

It's time to stop defending a system that is clearly in dire need of reform, stop issuing reports and setting up new roadblocks, and start providing Americans with prescription drugs that are both safe and affordable. ↗

— Herb Kohl

#both #clearly #defending #dire #dire need

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established. ↗

— Joan D. Vinge

#balance #established #fragile #human #humans

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. ↗

— Kate Winslet

#go #letting #loving #setting #someone