Quotes About Arrangement

There is no dignity to life except with order

The trouble shows up when they need to organize output—deciding what to do when and then controlling their own behavior to get there.

Fill a space in a beautiful way.

Art is nothing without form.

Both science and art have to do with ordered complexity.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Being organized means nothing more or less than where something is matches what it means to you.

Having an organizational tool that allows you to easily make lists such as these, ad hoc, is quite worthwhile.

The order I found was the order of disorder

What is the course and drift of your compact?

I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

I've always liked putting things in their places. I think it's my only true calling. By ordering things I create and understand at the same time ... Ordering is finding the best form.

The room was the opposite of what I'd created in my home, the opposite of the soft beauty I'd made from my talent for arrangement, my talent for living, the opposite of my serene irony, of my sweet and absentminded irony: it was a violation of my quotation marks, the quotation marks that made me a citation of myself. The room was the portrait of an empty stomach.

I've got some broken ducks. I need to get them in a row.

The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random

In einer Welt, die unübersichtlich geworden ist, wächst das Bedürfnis nach der Geordnetheit des Krippleins.

Mother," said Janna, "if the Frosches were here first, why do they have the fourth floor? Why did they not take the one we have?" "The Baron arranged it all," her mother said curtly.

Organization is the Devil's work.

stewart = the art of stew choreography

Michael stands at the dresser, putting his comb into his back right pocket, his wallet into his back left pocket, his keys into his front right pocket. A place for everything , and everything in its proper place. Except, perhaps, his wife.

bearing a bouquet of cleaning supplies and a bucket as a vase.

Maybe, I think, happiness is simply order.