Quotes About Rearranging

#1. We learn by rearranging what we know.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#2. Instead of reorganizing the demoniac, rearranging it a bit, like a psychoanalyst, you do away with it entirely.

Rene Girard

#3. I don't think our family is falling apart and getting destroyed. I just think it's rearranging itself in the way God meant it to be because it wasn't working how it was.

Brooke Hogan

#4. I'm always changing things around. I have to change it all the time. I'm rearranging furniture and taking down paintings and putting up new ones, and buying new pieces of art.

Evangeline Lilly

#5. Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

Tom Robbins

#6. Cubism. Seeing beyond what is on the surface. Moving both eyes and a nose to the side of the face. Dicing bodies and tables and guitars as if they were celery sticks, and rearranging them so that you have to really see them to see them.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#7. There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.

Adam Hartung

#8. All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

Wes Craven

#9. There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

Orson Scott Card

#10. After finishing the work I start rearranging the parts again and eventually start to work with themes - images and thoughts and things.

Tim Zuck

#11. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

#12. Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

Don Van Vliet

#13. She was so incredibly beautiful - she seemed to be wearing the sunlight, rearranging it around her from time to time, with a movement of one hand, with a movement of her head, and with her smile - that, when she paid the man and started out of the store, I started out behind her.

James Baldwin

#14. Every copywriter knows what it is to struggle with a copy for hours, for days - fixing it, polishing it, rearranging it. We have all been quilty of leaving the headline until the last and the spending half and hour on it - or perhaps only ten minutes.

John Caples

#15. When you're rearranging the furniture to make way for the decorations and the tree, make sure you rearrange your heart to make room for the Savior of Mankind.

Toni Sorenson

#16. It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging.

Nina De Gramont

#17. Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.

Viola Spolin

#18. Years later, when they were killed in a car crash on the Farm to Market Road, and the Nell-that-never-lived died with them, Olena, numbly rearranging the letters of her own name on the envelopes of the sympathy cards she received, discovered what the letters spelled: Olena; Alone.

Lorrie Moore

#19. Guess what, Jesus loves to walk with us. He loves to be with us all the time - not just in the scheduled time or in the leftovers. The only change He wants is our hearts.
Let's change by rearranging the change.

Eric Samuel Timm

#20. It is easy to look at these waves, accomplishing so little and to think that no matter what efforts we put forth in our lives, all we're really doing is rearranging the sand grains in a beach that in essence never changes.

Neal Stephenson

#21. Don't you think you're just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?

William Vickrey

#22. Basic military rule: you manage your anger by kicking ass, not by rearranging the furniture in your room.

Mohammed Hanif

#23. Engaging with haters is like rearranging pictures on the Titanic. What's the point?

Jodi Picoult

#24. Rearranging furniture, adding some candles, or making even small tweaks can really make the difference.

Anthea Turner

#25. If hearts really could sink, Kaylin's was busily rearranging her internal organs.

Michelle Sagara West

#26. I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

Bill Maher

#27. But sometimes I see instead the young girl's face I once spent so much time rearranging and deploring, drowned and floating just beneath my present face,

Margaret Atwood

#28. Are you thinking or are you just rearranging your prejudices?

Walter Martin

#29. Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

Richard Price

#30. It still is on the run,
time that is.
Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging.
Everything's different,
and yet everything's the same.
Time is just a crazy game.

Amanda Leigh

#31. I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing - that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around.

Markus Zusak

#32. You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Eckhart Tolle

#33. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#34. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

Anne Lamott

#35. Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.

Durga Chew-Bose

#36. 10Xers distinguish themselves by an ability to recognize defining moments that call for disrupting their plans, changing the focus of their intensity, and/or rearranging their agenda, because of opportunity or peril, or both.

James C. Collins

#37. I feel too strongly about rearranging reality in a movie. It gives me peace.

Alexandra Cassavetes

#38. A stiff breeze had claimed Athens, filling bedrooms, rearranging the tops of desks, touching everything and nothing, as if searching for something it no longer recognized.

Simon Van Booy

#39. Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies
the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices.

Robert A. Heinlein

#40. The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.

Ernest Cline

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

Lisa Alther

#42. Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.

Hanya Yanagihara

#43. An author is like an incompetent bricklayer - doesn't use mortar and keeps rearranging the bricks until someone tells him to stop.

Chris Everheart

#44. The key to life was rearranging the furniture.

Robert Ferro

#45. Sometimes it seems like everything's changing;
my whole world is rearranging.

Amanda Leigh

#46. Movements have narratives. They tell stories, because they are not just about rearranging economics and politics. They also rearrange meaning. And they're not just about redistributing the goods. They're about figuring out what is good.

Marshall Ganz

#47. I learn something all the time - rearranging what I thought I knew before.

Regina Taylor

#48. Now as then, he sensed the threads of his life scattering and rearranging before this new and overwhelming thing that had landed among them.

Helene Wecker

#49. The devil specializes in rearranging price tags, making the cheap look valuable and the miserable appear happy. (For example, if, before the purchase, people saw photos of themselves after five years of using methamphetamines, would they still buy them?)

Randy Alcorn

#50. I think that a symbolism is attached to particular images, becomes marked in the unconscious. To exorcise it, to rearrange it, to reshape it, to make it my own, involves unearthing it, describing it, deploying it inform, and then rearranging it.

Sarah Charlesworth

#51. Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech.

Gene Wolfe

#52. Fate lies in wait like a fucking time bomb, rearranging and aligning the stars to its own satisfaction. Then, one day, it detonates right in your face and all you want to do is not exist. But it's what you do to dislodge Fate's teeth from your ass that matters.

Cecilia Robert

#53. I'm hoping for an apology. An acknowledgement that she's made me feel like crap about myself again, but obviously I don't get anything like that out of her. She just sits in front of my mirror, rearranging her cleavage.

Dawn O'Porter

#54. Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears.
"It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're wearing it. It's blessed.

Meg Cabot

#55. I had to piece together a diet for her, too. I knew which combinations of which foods on which days would rehang everything that was draped so delicately beneath her skin. In a matter of months, the body under the smock was organized anew, redistributed

Gary Lutz