Background Quotes - page 3

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. (Sally Ride)
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. View quote
Lytton Strachey
we made love on the living room floor with the noise in the background of a televised war and in that defeaning pleasure i thought i heard someone say if we walk away they'll walk away. View quote
Conor Oberst
You'd be surprised how many people want to hang an electric chair on their living-room wall. Specially if the background color matches the drapes. View quote
Andy Warhol
The neo-conservative critics of leftist critics of mass culture ridicule the protest against Bach as background music in the kitchen, against Plato and Hegel, Shelley and Baudelaire, Marx and Freud in the drugstore. Instead, they insist on recognition of the fact that the classics have left the mausoleum and come to life again, that people are just so much more educated. True, but coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
As for the subject matter in my painting...it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me. View quote
William Baziotes
People from my sort of background needed Grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
I said to myself, 'You're a man from a humble background, what you didn't learn in school, you'll learn now. Catch up. View quote
Max Schmeling
The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background. This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test. View quote
Paul Karl Feyerabend
We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors. (Ian Fleming)
As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion, mysticism is being taken seriously even within the scientific community. An increasing number of scientists are aware that mystical thought provides a consistent and relevant philosophical background to the theories of Contemporary science, a conception of the world in which the scientific discoveries of men and women can be in perfect harmony with their spiritual aims and religious beliefs. View quote
Fritjof Capra
The Escalation programmers come from a completely different background, and the codebase is all STL this, boost that, fill-up-the-property list, dispatch the event, and delegate that. I had been harboring some suspicions that our big codebases might benefit from the application of some more of the various "modern” C++ design patterns, despite seeing other large game codebases suffer under them. I have since recanted that suspicion. View quote
John D. Carmack
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
94. I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard. View quote
Bill Bailey
I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. View quote
Megan McCafferty
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. View quote
Melinda Gates
I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning. View quote
Neal Shusterman
I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. View quote
Priyanka Chopra
I'd been to the British museum before. In fact I've been in more museums than I like to admit-it makes me sound like a total geek. [That's Sadie in the background, yelling I am a total geek. Thanks, Sis. ]. (Rick Riordan)
Surfing?” he asked. She laughed, and the sound sent a shock wave through the water. The wailing faded to background noise. Annabeth wondered if anyone had ever laughed in Tartarus before-just a pure, simple laugh of pleasure. She doubted it. View quote
Rick Riordan
If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. View quote
Sarah Zettel
I believe all men, all women, regardless of race, gender, socioeconomic background, you deserve the same rights. View quote
Sophia Bush
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together all the chapters of the book. View quote
Sophia Bush