Arranging Quotations

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

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.

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

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.

I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

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.

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.

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.

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.

I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.

Art is a process of delivering or arranging elements that appeal to the emotions of a person looking at it. It's what you feel.

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.

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

I am going to get them all moved on Monday. We are arranging for trucks to remove all of them to secure storage areas.

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

There is a growing body of concern about the lack of any coherent strategy for arranging roadside furniture.

My New Orleans community is in tremendous need and I truly appreciate the support of the Storm family during this challenging time for us. I thank the Sonics & Storm organization for arranging this donation drive and for their compassion for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

We can assist with arranging the mortgages, removals and legal aspects concerned with each purchase.

We've been seeing examples of eBay members arranging local meet-ups in their areas; and since there is crossover, we thought it was an interesting company, so we chose to make an investment.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

I sincerely appreciate the cooperation of their family in arranging for their surrender, ... The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and U.S. Marshals Service provided invaluable assistance in this case.

I wanted to create the ambiance of a garden. In the 17th century this probably would have been a reception hall for important people, but I even put in a sink for cutting and arranging flowers. I think it's where the nuns used to keep their toiletries.

But the major mechanism is really arranging constructive social contacts.

A man should work hard to earn wealth so that he does not have any problem in arranging things necessary for running household successfully.

Your wedding may be in May; you booked the facility in December; but what if a month before the ceremony, the facility was destroyed in a fire, flood, or tornado? What would you do? Most people also opt for coverage of the additional expenses associated with arranging alternative services.

I had actually always wanted to be a film composer, but when I was at college there didn't seem to be any easy route into it-or any route into it at all. I found myself in this pop world and arranging things for people and dealing with orchestras and string sections, and I suppose I thought I ought to be doing this myself.

If you insist on having things reserved and purchased from the U.S. beforehand, rather than arranging to purchase them locally, that can have a profound effect on costs.

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.

The band was an extracurricular activity. But Earl had the ability to encourage people and push them, at the same time, in order to raise the bar. And through his arranging techniques, he was able to minimize the weaknesses of our band and to emphasize the strengths.

Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another a baby-sitting list.

This is a good idea. The display and material were great. I also liked the idea of people giving up their keys or arranging for designated drivers for Super Bowl weekend.

The trick was actually rehearsing and arranging and even recording parts of it on the road. It's a challenge because it's hard to remember where you put your wallet let alone your parts to a song.

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.

It was sort of liberating in a way. We had to concentrate on arranging the tracks, we couldn't embellish them needlessly.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

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

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct