Set Quotes

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

We set ourselves a limit and cut characters which weren't so vital.

I can change a diaper in 30 seconds flat. I set the new one beneath the old one. That way, it's just wipe and pull the flap over.

I have set out to change the language of the international system.

I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.

I stole a piece of the chess set on the first film. I took a piece of the treasure out of Bellatrix's vault on this film. And I've taken my wand and I've got my cloak.

I was this role model for heavy people. But the thing is, I never set out to be a role model at all, and I don't set out to be one now. I won't preach to anyone and tell them how to lose weight. I don't know any better than the next person.

No matter where you are in your life, whatever set of people you're with, it all still breaks down like high school does. You have your social cliques, you have the people you get along with, the people you don't and the people you're ambivalent about. All of the dynamics are still here.

Don't set your wit against a child.

It was so much fun to do, play the blues and then play a Monkees' set on the same night.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.

I know that some actors and directors like to have intensity on set. I don't, particularly. Certainly, if they want that, that's fine, but I can't work like that.

I'm very happy to be directing though. It's a challenge, and it's a lot of fun for me to be on set.

'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.

The problems with First Ladies is that you have to set the standard. My role is to be both star and slave.

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

I'm trying to be a good parent and set a good example. When I'm on the road, they don't see a lot of me. I see them every other day. It's pretty all-encompassing when I'm on the road.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.

I wouldn't feel satisfied being on set every day doing a romantic comedy - I'd be bored to death.

The countless number of influential figures in American history who are of Caribbean heritage indicates the need to set aside a designated time to celebrate their contribution to our country.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

He has such a clear vision of exactly what he wanted out of each character, out of each set, out of each wardrobe change, out of each emotional beat, and action.

I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction.