Backgrounding Quotes & Sayings

Father says we are all Defects, in our way. Humans and clones. He says the word is really just a scare tactic to incite disobedient beings into subservience. He says that's all it really is - just a word. — Rachel Cohn

As your captain, I'm going to push you to not fall back on defense, but to play offense, and to play our match
the Gospel, together. — Pope Francis

Safer than we are." I told Franny. "Safer than love." "let me tell ya kid," Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. "Everything's safer than love. — John Irving

I've never wanted an Oscar, although they are reassuring to an actor who doesn't know how really great he is. — Bob Hope

We've always had our hardcore fans. But the general public has a love-hate thing about the 'Kinks.' It always leaves people with a question mark on their heads. — Dave Davies

Don't let them get to you. They have no idea what it's like to be you. They have no idea the things you went through. The things you've seen. They can pretend they know. They can dream up the worst-case scenario, but chances are, it doesn't even come close. You are stronger than they are. — Jennifer Rush

I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness. — Neil Gaiman

When you marry into a Mormon family you marry tribes and nations. — Wallace Stegner

I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems. — Ben Bradlee

Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what comes next, but what comes next may retrospectively transform our original understanding, highlighting some features of it and backgrounding others. — Terry Eagleton