Quotes About Structure

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Lots of times when I'm offered things, I can't see how a story gets filmed. Either it's too internal or it doesn't have a strong spine.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

Marriage is a core institution of societies throughout the world and throughout history. Its something that has provided permanence and stability for our very social structure.

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure

This country [the Philippines] is like a pyramid, like a tower. It is made up of millions of stones... . And the foundation stone of this pyramid is the common man.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

It is shameful for man to rest in ignorance of the structure of his own body, especially when the knowledge of it mainly conduces to his welfare, and directs his application of his own powers.

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

No one so poignantly realizes the failures in the social structure as the man at the bottom, who has been most directly in contact with those failures and has suffered most.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.

The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves.

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.

The universalists place the active nodes of linguistic life—the deep structures—so deep as to defy observation and description. Or to use Steiner's analogy: Try to draw up the creature from the depths of the sea, and it will disintegrate or change form grotesquely.

Far to the east, just above the horizon, was an especially big dot of light, like the clasp on a necklace. That would be the colossal structure of the Eye, currently stationed above the Atlantic.

The social structure of any nation-state is ultimately determined by its security arrangements.

Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past.

Any power structure one of whose main goals was to prevent humans from fucking each other at will had to be extremely formidable.

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If we assume that the arms grew outwards from the center, then there must be something in that center that imbues each of the six arms with the same organizing principle

Boys, he said, only want to know two things: who is in charge, and what are the rules.