Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
In some settings, however, rampant opportunistic behavior severely limits what can be done jointly without major investments in monitoring and sanctioning arrangements. — Elinor Ostrom Copy Share Image
Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Often the lines that define the traditional European arrangement of fiction, non-fiction, history, etc. are not useful. These lines can distort the… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life are arranged… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A second possible approach to general systems theory is through the arrangement of theoretical systems and constructs in a hierarchy of complexity,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
I can change the arrangements on stage while I am playing or singing, doing signs to the musicians to change things because… — Rokia Traore Copy Share Image
We must speak first about the division of land and about those who cultivate it: who should they be and what kind… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The first thing is love: love deeply. If you have been with a person for a few years, in deep love, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Polygamy has an ancient history and is legal in many parts of the world. I find the rules of polygamy to be… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Future lawyers should be more aware that law is not a system of abstract logic, but the web of arrangements, rooted in… — Felix Frankfurter Copy Share Image
Things will happen that seem to be totally contradictory, but these are God's arrangements. It was a wonderful day when I finally… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There is absolutely nothing democratic about the "global arrangement" through which the West has been ruling over the rest of the world… — Andre Vltchek Copy Share Image
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange… — Bernie Worrell Copy Share Image
A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
Whether Canada ends up as one national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement… — Stephen Harper Copy Share Image
Nature supplies the game of chess with its implements; science with its system; art with its aesthetic arrangement of its problems; and… — Peter Weiss Copy Share Image
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Many a man has a kind of a kaleidoscope, where the bits of broken glass are his own merits and fortunes; and… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Flew concluded that research into DNA had 'shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce life,… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
My concern is how we live fictions, how fictions have real effects, become facts in that sense, and how our experience of… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Performing magic has a lot to do with the arrangement of apparent coincidences and providing pathways along which desires can travel, or,… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening… — Jose James Copy Share Image
...the institutional arrangement whereby most professional economists are heavily burdened with teaching and administrative duties may militate against a sufficient admixture of… — Sir Henry Roy Forbes Harrod Copy Share Image
An understanding is perhaps better than an alliance, which may stereotype arrangements which cannot be regarded as permanent in view of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to… — Rick Derringer Copy Share Image
What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Expression for me does not reside in passions glowing in a human face or manifested by violent movement. The entire arrangement of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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