Quotes About Arrangement

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you've got problems.

When insane things start to arrange themselves in sane patterns around you, you know you've got problems. It

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Numbers arrange themselves the way numbers will, just as a word will, a story.

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

Kate) had found multiple titles by individual authors scattered willy-nilly through the collection. It made her want to pull her hair out. Obviously!- an individual author's body of work all belonged on one shelf, the works arranged, in turn, by whatever system was most suitable: by volume number, alphabetically by title, or by the year of publication, or, in case of playwrights, works grouped by genre- tragedies with tragedies, comedies with comedies, histories with histories, and so on.

Bits of the World: gathering up bits of the world & setting them out in an order that her children can understand

Cultivate order before confusion sets in.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

A museum is an institution like a library where everything has a place, everything belongs.

Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.

Elisabeth later always referred to this situation [her engagement and marriage] with great bitterness, saying, "Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen-year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again." "The Reluctant Empress", chapter 1

I have no little insight into the feelings of furniture, and treat books and prints with a reasonable consideration. How some people use their pictures, for instance, is a mystery to me; very revolting all the same--portraits obliged to face each other for ever--prints put together in portfolios.

Anything sequential happens in a sequence, a set of steps—

Book! you lie there; the fact is, you books must know your places.

Life, like a good painting, needs balance, a harmonious arrangement to avoid being chaotic, a mess, a failure.

It was as if Goldfinger had been put together with bits of other people's bodies.

Most houses were crammed with immovable objects in their proper places, and each object told you what to do - here you ate, here you slept, here you sat. I tried to imagine carpets, wardrobes, pictures, chairs, a sewing machine, in these gaping, smashed-up rooms. I was pleased by how irrelevant, how puny such objects now appeared.

Since 1955, the U.K. has been part of an intelligence-sharing arrangement with the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Intelligence-sharing is, in itself, commonplace.

My favorite lineup is just a trio, because then every night you can improvise and change the repertoire. Keyboards and brass can be great, but it puts you in a different ballgame because you're not quite as free. You have to stick to the arrangement of the song.

When I was still in the Yardbirds, our producer, Mickie Most, would always try to get us to record all these horrible songs. During one session, we recorded 'Ten Little Indians,' an extremely silly song that featured a truly awful brass arrangement.

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.

You get used to the exact amount of space between lines. You write a word and then you write an alternate word over it. You want enough room so you can read it, so the lines can't be too close.

I've a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.