Quotes About Arrangement

there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

When I cannot bear outer pressures anymore, I begin to put order in my belongings...As if unable to organize and control my life, I seek to exert this on the world of objects.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Angelo, beds are for sleeping, chairs are for sitting, tables are for piling books.' 'All flat surfaces are for piling books.' Angelo says

Alfred promised me that he would do just that—work for four weeks and on the fifth take a complete rest. That's the only way to arrange it because a man who's deeply involved can't shorten his work day very easily but he can organize a complete break. Unhappily, Alfred didn't do this. That's why he died.

Miss Stephens, observing the chaos that was normal for central London at that hour of the day, observed, 'This is very disorganised. Cannot it be better arranged

Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.

Tragedy is not concerned with human justice. Tragedy is the statement of an expiation, but not he miserable expiation of a codified breach of a local arrangement organized by the knaves for the fools. The tragic figure represents the expiation of the original sin, of the original and eternal sin of...having been born.

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I.

I like things in their proper places.

When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Try refusing the arrangement, or later petition for divorce -- the first is impossible while the second is like admitting you're a whore.

The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason, every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time-sequence for a reason. He demonstrates something that cannot possibly be demonstrated any other way than with a whole novel.

It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'

In many instances, order is apprehended first of all by the senses.

When you are finished with it, put it back in the first place that you looked for it.

First things first, second things never.

Whoever is playing with me, they participate in the arrangement; I learned from Craig Street to really pool the stories and the skill and the voices of everybody around you on the bandstand to build an arrangement in the moment.

But this emphasis would be lavished in vain, if it served, in your opinion, only to abstract a general type from phenomena whose particularity in our work would remain the essential thing for you, and whose original arrangement could be broken up only artificially.

I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.

Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.

If it had remained always my band, my natural tendency would have been to get more complex and arrange things more and more. That wouldn't necessarily be good for Eddie, or anyone else in the band.

The Christian denomination in which I grew up was founded on the proposition that slavery could flourish alongside the gospel of Jesus Christ. Its founders believed that this arrangement was not just possible, but divinely mandated.