Quotes About Arranging Things

#1. I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things.

Gerhard Richter

#2. My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

Anton Corbijn

#3. Order is what exists before you start arranging things.

Marty Rubin

#4. Sa'Adar's eyes went wide. "You're mad."
"Scarcely. Why do people always accuse me of that when I'm arranging things to my liking instead of theirs?

Robin Hobb

#5. Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

Walter Moers

#6. We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Johanna Spyri

#7. Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive.

Stephen Malkmus

#8. Accountants come in pairs these days. A middle-aged man in a dark suit and a sheen of perspiration, plus his younger accomplice, a woman who looks like her hobbies are arranging things in rows and making right angles.

Harry Bingham

#9. Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created.
You know, I think I show a lot of promise, I say.
Get dressed, you worthless thing.

Suzanne Collins

#10. Catastrophes have a somber way of arranging things.

Victor Hugo

#11. At this very moment, God's working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

Joel Osteen

#12. He had put them [his family] first by coming home [to India] and the irony was that they had put him first by arranging this marriage. He had walked into it with his eyes open. But his eyes had been open too long in the West and by the time he adjusted his vision to India, it was too late.

Anne Cherian

#13. And I think that when once he had learned the art of arranging his words as he stood upon his legs, and had so mastered his voice as to have obtained the ear of the House, the work of his life was not difficult.

Anthony Trollope

#14. My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar.

Maureen Forrester

#15. [Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

Philippe Halsman

#16. Arranging an official dinner in an embassy is a little like writing a script for a play. The prolog is the guest list, often the most difficult part of the whole creative operation.

Letitia Baldrige

#17. I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal.

Michael Giles

#18. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what is in Fortune's control and abandoning what lies in yours.

Seneca.

#19. The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Arnold Bennett

#20. Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Scott Weiland

#21. I decided at school that the only sensible way to make a living by arranging words in a pleasing order was by working on newspapers, because you got paid at the end of the week or the end of the month.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier.

Thor Heyerdahl

#23. Paul has more, I think, of a feel for the stage. Whereas I have it more for the notes themselves. I love record making and mixing, arranging, producing. That I love. I love to make beautiful things, but I don't like to perform.

Art Garfunkel

#24. It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

Mel Torme

#25. The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.

Sue Monk Kidd

#26. Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.

Charles Eames

#27. Now a theist, he thought he should behave like one, even if it meant him during "the fussy, time-wasting, botheration of it all! the bells, the crowds, the umbrellas, the notices, the bustle, the perpetual arranging and organizing," and, worst of all, the hymns and organ music.

Philip Zaleski

#28. When arranging a tour around the United States I had decided to cross on the Titanic. It was rather a novelty to be on the largest ship yet launched. It was no exaggeration to say that it was quite easy to lose one's way on such a ship.

Lawrence Beesley

#29. You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun.

Sparky Anderson

#30. I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Cameron Diaz

#31. Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.

Erik Hassle

#32. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.

Shannon L. Alder

#33. I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

Dylan Lauren

#34. Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability.

Adam Savage

#35. Meanwhile the Hemulen was arranging firework set pieces in suitable places. They had Bengal Lights, Blue-Star Rain, Silver Fountains, and Rockets that exploded with stars.

Tove Jansson

#36. When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.

Robyn

#37. I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.

Diane Arbus

#38. I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'
I should think so - in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#39. One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.

Vincent Van Gogh

#40. Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face.

Mary Rakow

#41. Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

Wilkie Collins

#42. Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Sarah Hall

#43. If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it.

Peter Eisenman

#44. The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

Bashar Al-Assad

#45. The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. Frenchwomen always give one to understand that arranging themselves is full-time work.

Nancy Mitford

#47. With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Bill Wyman

#48. The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#49. To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God's timing, you may not think He's working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.

Joel Osteen

#50. The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.

Norman Rush

#51. That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

B.F. Skinner

#52. Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

Lydia Davis

#53. and whether you could force happiness on yourself, simply by arranging your mouth in a happy expression.

Karen White

#54. At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home.

John D. MacDonald

#55. How is your eyesight? Are you able to see beyond your problems to the goodness and love beyond? This is where God lives - behind the scenes, at work, arranging your troubles of today into a brighter tomorrow.

Max Lucado

#56. The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do, when you ought to be occupied about that - if it is only arranging a window blind!

Hudson Taylor

#57. Life is not about organizing the arrangement, but rather about arranging our needs.

Nishikant

#58. I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking.

Mary Quant

#59. Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

Pat Conroy

#60. There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

Learned Hand

#61. The future is trash. Recycling it, re-arranging it. Making it beautiful again.

Chris Campanioni

#62. I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space.

Joanna Scott

#63. Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Bertrand Russell

#64. Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way

Mike Vance

#65. Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.

John Sterling

#66. If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

Alan Bennett

#67. Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

P.G. Wodehouse

#68. I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and ... just playing the blues!

Jools Holland