Top 100 Set In Quotes
#1. I have one brand I go to, and it's Suit Supply, and it's fantastic. I was spending $3,500-$4000 on a suit, and the suit I'm wearing today was $500. And they last you forever. The shoulders are set in by hand, it's phenomenal.
Tim Gunn
#2. It became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was as though her countenance had so long been set in an expression of unchallenged superiority that the muscles had stiffened, and refused to obey her orders.
Edith Wharton
#3. Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.
B.R. Ambedkar
#4. All our mortal lives are set in danger and perplexity: one day to prosper, and the next
who knows? When all is well, then look for rocks ahead.
Sophocles
#5. Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows, and necessity is the resultant of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces.
Jose Rizal
#6. But genius looks forward: the eyes of men are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. You want to hear an agent scream, say, 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'
Daniel Woodrell
#8. could still believe in their possible presence; for memory was now set in motion;
Marcel Proust
#9. A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.
George Meredith
#10. One of the reasons why I agreed to do commercials is that they gave me complete freedom. I just had to have the car in it and write a story around it. I wanted to do something serious set in a Latin American country, but again, it was an exercise in style for me.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#11. Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree.
Thomas Dekker
#13. Considering our backgrounds, I found it a strange irony that Ian and I should meet in central Borneo. Both of us were set in motion by the war in Southeast Asia. Ian enlisted. I left the country several weeks before an FBI agent arrived at my parents' front door.
Eric Hansen
#14. Some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been set in front of you in this life, and try to act on that as bravely and honestly as you could, no matter what kind of rules you'd previously been living by.
Roland Merullo
#15. I've always noticed that films set in any sort of future very rarely draw on the present.
Nicolas Roeg
#16. It is people who are the objects of globalization and at the same time its subjects. What also follows logically from this is that globalization is not a law of nature, but rather a process set in train by people.
Tarja Halonen
#17. Great changes in our society are always inspired and set in motion by one person. Be that person today.
Steve Maraboli
#18. I don't feel isolated on a film set. In a way you do because you don't really mix with the outside world; you're just sort of working non-stop for a few months, but you've got so many people around you.
Saoirse Ronan
#19. Stories are best when they 'emerge' from the depths, and when built in a painting from early sketch through the three-act process to The End, it is a perfect pathway to the unconscious stories set in our dreamwork.
Billy Cannon
#20. I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.
Anthony Marra
#21. [Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish.
James McAvoy
#22. I don't sit down in front of my computer screen and think, 'Right. Today I shall begin a story set in this or that period of history.' I just get ideas from the world around me.
Ann Turner
#23. I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.
James Laughlin
#24. Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier
#25. The sun rose and set in a land of dreams whether the clocks where right or wrong.
Patrick Kavanagh
#26. When I did 'Battlestar Galactica' it was the first time I really understood science fiction. That was a very political drama, but set in spaceships so people didn't really take it seriously. But some really fascinating things were explored in that.
Michelle Forbes
#27. For most of us, no matter how slim, middle-aged spread really does set in, and your waist thickens, irrespective of whether you've had children or if you exercise regularly.
Marie Helvin
#28. All of Shakespeare's plays were written under this law of censorship, which is why they are set in the past or in foreign countries, separated from the hot topics of Elizabethan and Jacobean England by the dramatic distance of time or space.
William Shakespeare
#29. I'm signing on to be an athlete, and it's almost like Karl Marx's theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I'm choosing to be a part of this system, thus I'm choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.
Lawrence Jackson
#30. I had all these sparkles I'd collected and wanted to work in, but when I originally started writing it and it was originally this novel about all these people set in 1666, what I was so interested in was the New Science.
Danielle Dutton
#31. If you are expecting Paul to read the Bible like it was set in stone, you will find yourself getting pretty nervous. For Paul, now that Jesus has come, the Bible was more like clay to be molded.
Peter Enns
#32. Sitting there on the swing set, in her bare feet and blue dress, her hair slipping out of its ponytail, she was so gorgeous that it hurt.
Robyn Schneider
#33. Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards.
Charles W. Chesnutt
#34. I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
Ziggy Marley
#35. So many of the fantasy stories I encountered growing up were set in worlds that were largely modelled on medieval Europe in one way or another. Lots of white folks in feudal societies, castles and kings, that kind of thing.
Chris Roberson
#36. But the more store you set in visions the more they have a habit of coming true.
Sally Green
#37. One whose faith (nishtha) is set in God, he is known as Brahma-nishtha (settled in the Self).
Dada Bhagwan
#38. The character of a life isn't set in ten big moments. The character of a life is set in ten thousand little moments of everyday life. It's the themes of struggles that emerge from those little moments that reveal what's really going on in our hearts.
Paul David Tripp
#39. And yet. Our best intentions are often thwarted by external forces - forces that we ourselves set in motion long ago.
Andre Agassi
#40. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#41. sarcastic. It was a crack at him being old school and set in his ways. The Metro was new
Michael Connelly
#42. I have discovered the secrets of the pyramids, and have found out how the Egyptians and the ancient builders in Peru, Yucatan and Asia, with only primitive tools, raised and set in place blocks of stone weighing many tons!
Edward Leedskalnin
#43. The sun has set in your life; it is getting cold. The hundreds of people around you cannot console you for the loss of the one.
Maria Von Trapp
#44. I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
Hailee Steinfeld
#45. It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space.
Clifford D. Simak
#46. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
#47. My novel Who Fears Death is a post-apocalyptic novel set in a future Sudan.
Nnedi Okorafor
#48. And Shanghai is amazing. I'm a fan of science fiction so when you're there in the night with all the lights and all this modernity, it's like a set in a movie.
Berenice Marlohe
#49. Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.
Victor Hugo
#50. Most books set in England between 1800 and 1840 have a 'Regency' feel. The reason that era is so useful for romance authors stems from the wide-ranging social changes that were occurring over that time, and the parallels, or echoes, those create with our time and the lives of our readers.
Stephanie Laurens
#51. I'm too set in my ways to start doing the right thing," he complained. "You're a bad influence, Horace.
John Flanagan
#52. You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
Seth
#53. Nothing is set in concrete the way it typically is when one is, for example, pouring concrete.
Matthew B. Crawford
#54. 'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
Alexander Hanson
#55. Goals are set in life to enable concentrated and directed effort to be employed toward a desired end. Without goals, it will be easy to derail, and it will also be hard to track progress.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#56. In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
Lesley Manville
#57. As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.
Tim Wu
#58. Parents show you life is a paved road. Friends show you the road isn't there yet, it's waiting for you to carve it out. Parents show you life is a handbook, with rules set in place. Friends show you how to break the rules you're handed.
Katie Kacvinsky
#59. On Earth, we have a continuous influx of young people who are willing to change because they haven't had time to grow hard set in their ways. I suppose there's some optimum. A life long enough for real accomplishment and short enough to make way for youth at a rate that's not too slow.
Isaac Asimov
#60. There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#61. With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
David Benioff
#62. And she was old, too. For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even set in.
Marilynne Robinson
#63. When your mind is set in meditative equipoise, you can see reality exactly as it is
Gautama Buddha
#64. She had a lot of face and chin. She had pewter-colored hair set in a ruthless permanent, a hard beak and moist eyes with the sympathetic expression of wet stones.
Raymond Chandler
#65. When a man destroys his fellow, people say that such a one is a murderer. When one set in authority destroys, it is said that this one is a faithful judge.
Kahlil Gibran
#66. The fool has set in his heart that he can get more money through the tiring of his muscle and the starvation of his brain-but he can't.
William D. Hoard
#67. There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#68. When I went to school, it was right after the '60s and before this general wave of practical purposefulness had set in ... The idealistic wind of the '60s was still at our backs, though, and most of the people I know who are my age have that engrained in them forever.
Steve Jobs
#69. I've learned that no matter how inspired, fired up and motivated you might be, the dark clouds will always set in
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#70. If any task is yet another brick set in the construction of my own monument, it is in all likelihood a brick confiscated from someone else's monument.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#71. It's like we get so set in our ways, so entrenched in those grooves, we stop seeing our loved ones for who they are. But tonight, right now, I see you again, like the first time we met, when the sound of your voice and your smell was this new country.
Blake Crouch
#72. Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
William Penn
#73. Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely?
Laura Miller
#74. Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
Mariella Frostrup
#75. Some newer writers worry about books set in Canada having a big appeal, but it has never been an issue for me. I haven't wanted to write in the States because I don't know the States.
Chevy Stevens
#76. You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands - your own.
Mark Victor Hansen
#77. There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.
John Le Carre
#78. I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#79. Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it's safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don't grow anymore.
Frank E. Peretti
#80. It's watching the sun rise in your smile and set in your tears.
Natasha Anders
#81. These were the ridiculous tales of being twenty-two and twenty-five, of being in that happy, malleable phase of postcollege life before everything set in the gray cement of adulthood.
Maya Lang
#82. There's no set-in-stone way to be a vampire, especially with the evil ones.
Cameron Bright
#83. Each new child that's born to the Antrobuses seems to them to be sufficient reason for the whole universe's being set in motion; and each new child that dies seems to them to have been spared a whole world of sorrow, and what the end of it will be is still very much an open question.
Thornton Wilder
#84. I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can't operate that way in New York. But in California, he can move between different counties.
Patricia Highsmith
#85. The moon has set In a bank of jet That fringes the Western sky, The pleiads seven Have sunk from heaven And the midnight hurries by; My hopes are flown And, alas! alone On my weary couch I lie.
Sappho
#86. My novels about medieval Wales were set in unexplored terrain; my readers did not know what lay around every bend in the road.
Sharon Kay Penman
#87. You can't go back and edit during the live set in the club. In the studio it's different.
Rob Brown
#88. With chaste affections man and wife In solemn wedlock it entwines. Love's laws most trusty comrades bind. How happy is the human race, 30 If Love, by which the heavens are ruled, To rule men's minds is set in place!
Boethius
#89. As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
Umberto Eco
#90. My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.
Laurence Housman
#91. THE HEIR OF NIGHT by Helen Lowe is a richly told tale of strange magic, dark treachery and conflicting loyalties, set in a well realized world.
Robin Hobb
#92. A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.
T. J. Stiles
#93. My first time I directed a play was 'No Exit,' a play set in a subway.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#94. In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.
John Lahr
#95. No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.
Finley Peter Dunne
#96. I think one of the great bits of The Muppet show is that it was set in a 19th century British theater and they live so nicely amongst that lovely old theater.
James Bobin
#97. In my contemporary stories, I write about today's quilters, inventive techniques they use, and how technology has influenced their art. Novels set in the past let me have fun researching patterns that were popular and fabrics and tools available to quilters through history.
Jennifer Chiaverini
#98. We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
Joel Osteen
#99. I feel nervous when the script is set in stone, and I feel nervous when I feel the script is written for mass consumption because I don't see myself that way.
Jenny Slate
#100. Her husband sat silently while she talked, his hands fisted together, his half-smile set in concrete; he looked wisely down at the tablecloth. So this is marriage, I thought: this shared tedium, this twitchiness, and those little powdery runnels forming to the sides of the nose.
Margaret Atwood
