Quotes About Rearrange

I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books.

Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd just like to mace them. I want to tell them that I envy their upbringings that were so clean, so free of futurelessness. And I want to throttle them for blindly handing over the world to us like so much skid-marked underwear.

When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

They disconnect biblical truths from each other like a depraved artist who rearranges the pieces of a beautiful mosaic.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself. —Truman Capote When

Oh, what I want to do is hand my life over to someone else. That's all. And they could rearrange everything into something that would make sense.

The front of my head feels like a house, and the thoughts reside within different set places that I can rearrange like furniture, but mostly I don't. I come from a furniture-dodging tribe. We tiptoe around the pieces as they remain in place. I'm thinking that way again. Strange, the small things that make us proud.

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

One expected the advent of children to rearrange one's future. No one had told Jole that they could also rearrange one's past. It seemed an extraordinary reach to have

Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.

wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under

The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

Stop for a moment and contemplate in horror the endless list of attachments that you have become a prisoner to. Think of concrete things and persons, not abstractions. Once your attachment had you in its grip, you began to strive with every waking minute of your life to rearrange the world around you so that you could attain and maintain the objects of your attachment.

Windows never planned for a VR device. When you plug a HDMI cable into the computer, Windows thinks it's a new monitor. The desktop blinks. It tries to rearrange windows and icons.

Every time I change the way I explain myself to myself, I have to rearrange the story of my life.

I'm always moving furniture and things around in my house.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.

There's no shortage of panic and no shortage of people willing to rearrange the truth to preserve their vision of the world as they'd like it to be.

You can't derange, or rearrange, your poems again. (But the sparrows can their song.) The words won't change again. Sad friend, you cannot change.

Patient genius is constantly detecting order in apparent chaos ... and when this happens, by all means rearrange your map of the universe accordingly. But do not argue that chaos is therefore non-existent.

Brandalism Any advertisement in public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you. It's yours to take, rearrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you get all the credits of non-fiction without paying the price.