Set Quotes

Set your goals high, and don't stop till you get there.

Bloom County was set in a tidy, rural environment probably because of Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Racism built me into a person that was set up to be self-destructive.

I could be equally happy on a film set or in the middle of a field.

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I like to set up obstacles and defeat them.

We are going to put out a boxed set thing, but I don't want to do it yet. I want to wait until we're 45 and we're bitter and broke. Then, we'll put out the comprehensive Ween boxed set.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, hold our breath and hope we've set aside enough money for our kid's therapy.

I love Dead Ringers. A democratic set, the work was taken seriously.

I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad.

I can't cook, but I have a nice book of menus... and I can plate and set the table.

The band set up in January and just started rehearsing. If there was a song, we'd just rehearse it as a band, and it would get arranged as a band, and it got changed around a lot.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

A love song is just a caress set to music.

We must break up the eurozone. We must set those Mediterranean countries free.

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.