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Quotes About Arrangement

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
~ Steve Martin
That room was not available, and the only other room had been booked for a Jewish bar mitzvah. I called the father and told him I needed the room and I would pay him to move the bar mitzvah to an adjoining room which was smaller.
~ Lew Wasserman
Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.
~ Tom Shales
Government is the right disposition of things.
~ Michel Foucault
The processes of objectification originate in the very tactics of power and of the arrangement of its exercise.
~ Michel Foucault
Die Musik wird aus dem Rauschen geboren: das erste menschliche Lallen, die erste Information im Chaos. Aus seiner Quelle entsprungen, lässt dieser Strom der Arrangements und Kombinationen, der in Melodien und Harmonien zur Sprache hinabfließt, die Negentropie anwachsen.[...]
~ Michel Serres
I love the way a list makes a big hodgepodge of things simmer down and behave.
~ Blue Balliett
Messy arrangements far outweigh orderly ones.
~ Brian Greene
Anirul stiffened. "My future husband—and even the Golden Lion Throne itself—are secondary to our breeding program." "Of course you're right." Margot nodded in resignation, as if shocked at her own gaffe. "But how should we proceed?" "We begin with a message to Leto.
~ Brian Herbert
married for politics in the first place, lad," he had said. "Never should have tried to make it otherwise. At our station, marriage is a tool. Don't muck everything up by trying to throw love into the mix.
~ Brian Herbert
When everything is laid out neatly and in sequence, you will feel much more like getting on with the job.
~ Brian Tracy
9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: Have everything you need at hand before you start. Assemble all the papers, information, tools, work materials, and numbers you might require so that you can get started and keep going.
~ Brian Tracy
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
~ Carl Sagan
There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never Enough Shelf Space.
~ Terry Pratchett
I recall no arrangement, Mau, no bargain, covenant, agreement or promise. There is what happens, and what does not happen. There is no 'should
~ Terry Pratchett
When Mr. Aching had worked for the old Baron, they had, as men of the world, reached a sensible arrangement, which was that Mr. Aching would do whatever the Baron asked him to do. Provided the Baron asked Mr. Aching to do what Mr. Aching wanted to do and it needed to be done.
~ Terry Pratchett
as well balanced as an upturned pyramid.
~ Terry Pratchett
The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn't really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being in existence for so long.
~ Terry Pratchett
Kasandra took charge of things. She was the most organized person Johnny knew. In fact she was so organized that she had too much organization for one person, and it overflowed in every direction.
~ Terry Pratchett
Your words are you. You are them and not much more. The Description: the fieldness of fields, the weediness of weeds… When is description mere? Never. A freshness in the seeing, an innocency in the vision, the angle of perception, the bringing together of details, not necessarily as metaphors, even, just as objects. Be one of those on whom, as Lawrence said, nothing is lost. Don't strain for arrangement. Look and put it down and let your sensibility be the sieve.
~ Theodore Roethke
For me, what people generally call sound design is just one component of orchestrating a score.
~ Johann Johannsson
My bed is actually two king beds put together.
~ Cindy Margolis
Never label anything 'Miscellaneous.'
~ Gretchen Rubin
When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you got problems.
~ Karen Marie Moning