Quotes About Sequence

I've often noticed that once coincidences start happening they go on happening in the most extraordinary way. I dare say it's some natural law that we haven't found out.

In the ordinal view, number is thought as a link in a chain, it is an element of a total order. In the cardinal view, it is rather the mark of a 'pure quantity' obtained through the abstraction of domains of objects having 'the same quantity'. The ordinal number is thought according to the schema of a sequence, the cardinal number, according to that of a measurement.

How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another

History is just one fucking thing after another.

My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

With a documentary, you can cut away, you can do jump cuts, cut to a photograph at any point to bridge two scenes.

I never think of photographs as being individual. Always as a group.

But never had come first.

Proscenium of nearly identical mountain ridges, arched out and downward, one 'after' another, to the valley floor: curtains tied back, a gesture

The days passed. Sunday turned to Monday turned to Tuesday turned to Wednesday.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

I'm just another link in the chain.

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

I have to put my outfit on in the same order. It's sort of a superstition. The last thing I put on is the glasses.

'Sol Invictus' works like your basic FNM record: the sequencing is an artful job, hustling you politely through all the gentle, harsh, weird surprises that follow - and then when it's over, you get back on the ride and start over, just like Space Mountain.

Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation. EUDORA WELTY

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves, they find their own order . . . the continuous thread of revelation. EUDORA WELT

What came next is very hard to tell. Indeed, I have told it but once before, when I needed to, and I will tell it this time only becaude it forms a strand in the fabric of my story, and it wove itself into what came after.

The rest of the night was an endless dream sequence directed by David Lynch

A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.

First the grub, then the morals.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.