79 Quotes About Setting

If you set a clear standard for yourself; for how you wish to be treated — people take note.

Casinos were nothing new for Edmonton. Outside of Nevada, the city had more gambling space per capita than any other city in North America, a fact that some people in the chamber of commerce liked to celebrate, while others didn’t.

All around the edges of the platform where she sat, elephants stood patiently waiting for their breakfast. Occasionally, one would grunt or snort or flap its ears, but otherwise, they were as quiet as apparitions.

A restaurant overlooking a starlit night sprang to my imagination like something out of an illuminated manuscript from the late Middle Ages.

I look out at the reservation, still and glittering with casinos, and think of all the death dried up and buried in its dirt.

Bicycles, bullock carts, and buses that belched thick, black smoke moved in anarchic streams with the auto rickshaws and cars along the streets. Many of the shops—normally selling everything from groceries to stainless steel cookware to shoes—stood silent behind shutters and honeycomb grilles.

The color of the sky was like a length of white chalk turned on its side and rubbed into asphalt. Sanded--that was how the world looked, worked slowly down to no rough edges.

The light was going: some cloud cover arriving, as if summoned by drama.

They rolled up the path, tree branches raking the windshield like angry wardens.