Backdrop Quotes:

Every day life must always be lived against the backdrop of eternity.

- Tim Kimmel

topic: Eternity, Day Life, Backdrop

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

topic: Hollywood, My Family, Movie Business, Backdrop

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

- Lydia Lunch

topic: Thinking, People, Brain, Backdrop

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

- Jakob Nielsen

source: Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

topic: Design, Website, Users, Backdrop

Palming separates the men from the boys!

- Ed Marlo

topic: Boys, Men, Magic, Backdrop, Best Baseball

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

- Philip Zimbardo

topic: Cosmos, Fabric, Backdrop

The spectacular landscape circling the fortress supplies an essential backdrop, inspiring dreamers to wander its ruins for the sake of it; North American tourists, bound down by their practical world view, are able to place those members of the disintegrating tribes they may have seen in their travels among these once-living walls, unaware of the moral distance separating them, since only the semi-indigenous spirit of the South American can grasp the subtle differences.

- Che Guevara

topic: Wall, Distance, Differences, Backdrop

Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

- Alex Ebert

source: FaceBook post by Alex Ebert from Sep 16, 2013

topic: Cinema, Opera, Matter, Backdrop

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

- Loretta Lux

topic: Thinking, Costumes, Photograph, Backdrop

The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.

- Gavin Turk

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Artist, Signatures, Painting, Backdrop

I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.

- Romany Malco

source: "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

topic: Depiction, Backdrop, Overused

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventures. Nowadays, time moves forward at a rapid pace. Forgotten overnight, a historic event glistens the next day like the morning dew and thus is no longer the backdrop to a narrator's tale but rather an amazing adventure enacted against the background of the over-familiar banality of private life.

- Milan Kundera

topic: Morning, Moving, Adventure, Glisten, Morning Dew

It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.

- John Glenn

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: War, Technology, Space Flight, Backdrop

You can never go wrong with a nice red lip. I'm not afraid to wear it during the day or basically any time because I wear a lot of black and it's a great backdrop for it.

- Crystal Renn

source: Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

topic: Nice, Black, Red, Backdrop

Beautifully written, intensely passionate and gripping, FALLEN grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Its eerie future world and frightening mores provide an unforgettable backdrop to the story of Lilia Desjardins, the shade-hunter, and fallen-angel turned cop, Adam Montgomery. It’s Matrix, Blade Runner and Terminator rolled into a riveting love story and made better. Perfect. A must-read by an author who keeps you on the edge of your seat.

- Linnea Sinclair

topic: Letting Go, Angel, Eerie, Montgomery, Gripping

A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic.

- Stuart Hill

source: Stuart Hill (2011). “The Icemark Chronicles #2: Blade of Fire”, p.683, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Nice, Fire, Battle, Apocalyptic, Backdrop

When you refuse to teach on the radical depravity of men, it is an impossibility that you bring glory to God, His Christ, and His cross, because the cross of Jesus Christ and the glory thereof is most magnified when it's placed in front of the backdrop of our depravity!

- Paul Washer

topic: Jesus, Men, Glory, Depravity, Backdrop

Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a backdrop of looming danger. Anne Fortier casts a new light on one of history's greatest stories of passion. I was swept away.

- Sara Gruen

topic: Passion, Light, Historical, Backdrop, Lush

Formula One has been the backdrop of my life.

- Tamara Ecclestone

topic: Formulas, Backdrop

I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.

- Warsan Shire

topic: Girl, Stars, Dark, Dark Sky, Backdrop

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

- Lynne Sharon Schwartz

source: Lynne Sharon Schwartz (2001). “Ruined By Reading: A Life in Books”, p.12, Beacon Press

topic: Reading, Backdrop

There are people who have no engaged conversation with the land whatsoever, no sense of its beauty or extremes or limits and therefore no reason to question their actions in a place that is merely backdrop.

- Ellen Meloy

source: Ellen Meloy (2008). “The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky”, p.289, Vintage

topic: Land, People, Limits, Backdrop

Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

- Chandra Talpade Mohanty

topic: Growing Up, Past, Views, Backdrop

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position within the world and an inexorable demographic decline. The operation in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s strategy in excess; it is Netanyahu’s strategy in its entirety. The liberal Zionist, two-state vision with which I identify, which once commanded a mainstream position within Israeli political life has been relegated to a left-wing rump within it.

- Jonathan Chait

source: "Israel Is Making It Hard To Be Pro-Israel". Article by Jonathan Chait, nymag.com. July 29, 2014.

topic: Wings, Two, Political, Backdrop, Deteriorating

Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains a foothold in the past, creating an amazing backdrop for tourings and natives alive. Japan captures the imagination like no other. You never feel quite so far from home as you do in Japan, yet there are no other people on the planet that make you feel as comfortable.

- Corey Taylor

topic: Country, Home, Memorable, Cyberpunk, Backdrop

'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.

- John Lydon

topic: Country, Greek, Parks, Lollipop, Backdrop

When State Way Gardens and The Robert Taylor Homes were being torn down, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to use that as a backdrop for the development of a super hero narrative.

- Kerry James Marshall

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Backdrop, Super Hero

I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.

- Romany Malco

source: "Romany Malco Chats w/ S&A About “Think Like A Man,” Picking Projects, Black Cinema & More!". Interview with Vanessa Martinez, www.indiewire.com. May 7, 2012.

topic: Backdrop

Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

- J. G. Ballard

topic: Self, Demand, Matter, Backdrop

Against the backdrop of people who avoid work, cut corners, and do half-hearted jobs, a diligent man stands out. Practicing diligence is an excellent way to stand out for Christ at home, in the workplace, and even at church. Today, complete each one of your tasks, however big or small, with diligence.

- David Jeremiah

topic: Jobs, Home, Cutting, Backdrop, Church Today

The Sundering is a world spanning event that creates ripples all across the Realms. The books in the series are connected in that they take place against that backdrop, showing different aspects of it. The stories, however, are not sequels or intertwined, though there are some Easter Eggs across books.

- Paul S. Kemp

topic: Easter, Book, Eggs, Backdrop, Easter Egg

The reading of the song is vital. The written word is first always . . . first. Not belittling the music, but it really is a backdrop. To convey the meaning of a song you need to look at the lyric and understand it.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Backdrop

I really am just trying to tell stories. But stories are often grounded in larger events and themes. They don't have to be - there's a big literature of trailer-park, kitchen-table fiction that's just about goings-on in the lives of ordinary people - but my own tastes run toward stories that in addition to being good stories are set against a backdrop that is interesting to read and learn about.

- Neal Stephenson

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Running, People, Interesting, Backdrop, Trailer Park

We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.

- Paul Ryan

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Party, Winning, Thinking, Backdrop, Dreary

My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

- Vladimir Nabokov

source: Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.414, Vintage

topic: Mirrors, Flying, Black, Illusionists, Backdrop

To preach the gospel is to show people their need for salvation against a backdrop of God's nature and the character of sin, and then present Jesus as the only remedy for what ails them and the world. In my weekly preaching in the worship services I always call people to believe in Christ.

- Timothy Keller

source: Source: www.monergism.com

topic: Jesus, Believe, Character, Backdrop, Worship Service

In brief, worldbuilding is different than setting in my opinion. Setting is a room. A backdrop. It's scenery. But without good worldbuilding, you can't have realistic feeling scenery. You can't have cool, unique backdrops for your story.

- Patrick Rothfuss

topic: Unique, Feelings, Rooms, Backdrop

I have nothing but respect for people who travel the world to make art and put exotic Indians in front of linen backdrops, but it's always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary.

- Sally Mann

topic: Art, Philosophy, People, Backdrop

Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.

- Minnie Maddern Fiske

topic: Beautiful, Play, Black, Backdrop, Ibsen

When I first went to jail in 1960 with seven classmates trying to use their public library against the backdrop of my father being a veteran of World War II, not being able to use - having to sit behind Nazi on American military bases, I lost my fear of jails and death.

- Jesse Jackson

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Military, War, Father, Military Bases, Backdrop

Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.

- Nate Berkus

source: "Oprah's Designer Nate Berkus Tackles Twitter Backgrounds". Interview with Christina Warren, mashable.com. January 25, 2010.

topic: White, Want, Pages, Watercolors, Backdrop

I think somebody who is more self-reflective should ask why they personally aren't going on that path. If amateurism is so great, why didn't you stay one? You have to look at the larger economy, a backdrop of unemployment; it's shitty out there.

- Astra Taylor

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Thinking, Self, Unemployment, Backdrop

What it targets is not something that's really looked at a lot in terms of the war. This is stuff that's off the beaten path in terms of what we think of every time you start a Civil War history or a Civil War presentation. It's usually about the military and the soldiers and all that stuff. And this is not. It's the backdrop to a place and a time and circumstances that didn't have anything to do with that.

- Gary Cole

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Backdrop, Off The Beaten Path, Beaten Path

I think that those of us who are ordinary disappear easily into the backdrop of life and we take things for granted. We often wake up in our lives and wonder how we got there. But the characters I create, the people I am drawn to, are quite extraordinary (and not always in wholesome ways), and they offer us the chance to understand who we really are and how we became who we are.

- Chris Abani

source: RUMPUS INTERVIEW with Peter Orner, therumpus.net. February 10, 2014.

topic: Character, Thinking, People, Backdrop, Taking Things For Granted

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

- Henry Giroux

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Military, War, Soldier, Stature, War Zones

I wanted to present a sweep and scope of larger events, and a grander backdrop, but most important was to set against that a very singular, real and modest people struggling with every day and human struggles.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Real, Struggle, People, Backdrop

Poor Hollywood! These things happen all over the world but what a great backdrop to have Hollywood in our movie. No, but I know people who divorce a lot....and have really nice houses. But I didn't model the character on anyone in particular. And if I did, I would never tell the name.

- Catherine Zeta-Jones

topic: Nice, Character, Divorce, Backdrop, Nice House

What interests Sam Mendes are characters and relationships, and he was a genius at giving you the freedom to create the type of character you want, and also to explore and have fun with your fellow actors. For him, characters and relationships are really the heartbeat of the film, and then the action is the backdrop. By developing the characters, he makes you care that much more about the action and going on a journey with the characters.

- Naomie Harris

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Fun, Heart, Character, Backdrop

When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.

- Paul Reubens

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Dad, Kids, Play, Nighttime, Backdrop

... in the eyes of its visitors, Venice has no reality of its own. Anyone visiting the place has already seen so many pictures of it that they can only attempt to view it via these clichés, and they take home photographs of Venice that are similar to the ones they already knew. Venice [is] becoming like one of those painted backdrops that photographers use in their studio.

- Christian Boltanski

topic: Eye, Home, Reality, Backdrop