Arrangements Quotes · Page 3

If you're ordering me an edible arrangement to say thanks, I'd prefer a meat one.

— LIZ

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

— Rex Stout

I like really sparse electronics, lush arrangements, and interesting chord structures.

— Josh Klinghoffer

Most groups today aren't groups. In a true group all the members create the arrangements among themselves.

— Robby Krieger

What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

— DJ Spooky

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of…

— Brian May

I have a wife and anything. That's the arrangement we have. I have a wife, and she's cool. And also I have…

— Nick Thune

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.

— Rudolf Arnheim

God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition…

— Richard Salter Storrs

To demonize state authoritarianism while ignoring identical albeit contract-consecrated subservient arrangements in the large-scale corporations which control the world economy is fetishism…

— Bob Black

Given cognitive vulnerabilities, it would be convenient to have an arrangement whereby reality could tell us off; and that is precisely what…

— Rebecca Goldstein

Mathematicians come to the solution of a problem by the simple arrangement of the data, and reducing the reasoning to such simple…

— Antoine Lavoisier

There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement.…

— Sam Amidon

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who…

— Jello Biafra

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases…

— Walter J. Phillips

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American…

— Tony Judt

But of all other stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind must have been his who conceived how to communicate his most secret…

— Galileo Galilei

I was offered a job at the Cincinnati Post as their editorial cartoonist in a trial six month arrangement. The agreement was…

— Bill Watterson

Our society trains us to think of marriage as a contractual arrangement. If one party fails to fulfill his or her end,…

— Michael Horton

The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared…

— Eliza Acton

Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held…

— Michel Foucault

I'm somebody who grew up listening to a lot of musical theater, so getting to finally write musical theater songs and songs…

— Sara Bareilles

What is true is that the idea of power corrupts. Power corrupts most rapidly those who believe in it, and it is…

— Gregory Bateson

Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No…

— Daniel Dennett

Contemporary scholars have little explored the preconditions of genocide. Still less have they asked whether a society's weapons policy might be one…

— Daniel D. Polsby

Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields…

— Edward Steichen

The revolution of Jesus is in the first place and continuously a revolution of the human heart or spirit...it is a revolution…

— Dallas Willard

A composition is an arrangement, built out of parts, that aims at seamlessness.

— Eric Maisel

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

— Beck

I didn't start writing with band arrangements until I was working on 'Tramp.'

— Sharon Van Etten

I wish you wouldn't make the strings such an important part of your arrangements because frankly they're only a tax dodge!

— Tommy Dorsey

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

— Hanif Kureishi

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere…

— Joseph Campbell

Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

— Lydia M. Child

I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions.

— Thalia

Identify in your work opposites of color, form, compositional arrangements, space, etc.

— Joshua L. Goldberg

It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.

— Mary Douglas

And in man is a three-pound brain which, as far as we know, is the most complex and orderly arrangement of matter…

— Isaac Asimov

I am a man and you are a woman. I can't think of a better arrangement.

— Groucho Marx