Arranging Quotes

93 quotes by 81 authors

As I understand it, I am being paid only for my work in arranging the words; my property is that arrangement. The thoughts in this… — Wendell Berry
I had become a kind of information magpie, gathering to myself all manner of shiny scraps of fact and hokum and books and art-history and… — Salman Rushdie
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… — Walter Moers
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… — Suzanne Collins
It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are… — Erich Maria Remarque
And she hates being managed - that is not the word I want. What is it, Maturin?' 'Manipulated.' 'Exactly. She is a dutiful girl -… — Patrick O'Brian
I have mastered many things in my life. Navigating the streets of London, speaking French without an accent, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of… — Cassandra Clare
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… — Sue Monk Kidd
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… — John D. MacDonald
A comma . . . catches the gentle drift of the mind in thought, turning in on itself and back on itself, reversing, redoubling, and… — Pico Iyer
I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept… — Mary Oliver
I don't have a talent, unless you count hunting illegally, which they don't. Or maybe singing, which I wouldn't do for the Capitol in a… — Suzanne Collins
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and… — Rick Bragg
Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet… — Richelle Mead
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… — Johanna Spyri
Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face. — Mary Rakow
I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read… — Mary Oliver
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… — Pat Conroy
Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and… — Johan Huizinga
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. — Thor Heyerdahl

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