Quotes About Arrangement

He could see tiny particles of dust drifting in the air between her ankles, each fleck tumbling individually in and out of the sunlight, and there was something intensely familiar in their arrangement.

everything shipshape

Ordnung muss sein.

I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

You can't have a show that's too ballad heavy. Those are the black and white logistics of putting together a show. You have to have some balance and some order.

A Constitution is not meant to be a flexible arrangement which evolves from one decade to another depending on political expediency.

There's really an art form to putting together a set list that flows evenly and that takes you on a ride and doesn't feel disjointed.

I am an organization freak!

For 10 years, I'd been working as a freelance writer and editor, making money but not a living. It was a good arrangement family-wise, allowing me to stay home with our daughter, but not so great financially or, sometimes, ego-wise.

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.

When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music.

I like to create what I call 'tablescapes.' It's so much more fun when you organize your table around a theme, don't you think?

He had learned one truth in his work—there was no changing the true arrangement of a human heart. One dealt with the earthly exigencies.

jiggered-together adaptations.

Si elle n'est plus belle, eh bien tant pis ! Nous nous arrangerons ! J'ai gardé tant de beauté d'elle en moi, si vivace, si chaude que j'en ai bien pour tous les deux et pour au moins vingt ans encore, le temps d'en finir.

the fun of keeping things in them. He was not a very tidy boy in general, but he did like arranging things in cupboards and drawers and then opening them later and finding them just as he'd left them.

The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

Great idea on the arrangement of my work. It will make a difference to me to disentangle certain passages, bring certain phrases in relief, help me to find my own bearings. The literalness is not to be attributed to the high and noble reasons I gave you (all that stuff on Rimbaud, metaphysical-artistic imperatives), just sheer laziness, between you and me.

order for all your work, my friend: First

Mary Anne schedules our baby-sitting jobs.

poetry: the best words in the best order." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge