Set Quotes

One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

We are reinventing the world. We've set the ball spinning with little concern for where and how it's going to stop.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

There's a lot of intensity when you're on a set. And then it just goes away and no one's giving you attention or flooding you with compliments.

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian.

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I'm currently doing Undeclared an American TV show set in a college. It just got aired and got massive ratings so hopefully that'll screen in the UK soon.

Canada sets aside 36 percent of their visas for people with skills they think their country needs. We set aside six percent. We educate the doctors, and then don't give 'em a green card.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I think that marriage is an amazing institution and should be preserved, and you can have great marriages, and you must because sharing your life with someone is like the greatest thing. And I loved being able to set a good example for that on television.

I can't believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can't believe I set foot on the same stage, and it's going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it's going to be a video.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

I really enjoy playing 'Tiger Woods' on the Wii, and you can set the levels to easy, medium, or hard, so I think it's definitely a good way for kids to learn the motion of a golf swing if they want to get into the sport. It makes it more fun for them as well.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

People are often afraid for me. They think that I am going to break. I can make it through a set.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.