Configuration Quotes

34 quotes by 31 authors

You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make something memorable, that's what's interesting… — Don Felder
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Marilyn Strathern
A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence. It thus excludes the possibility… — Michel de Certeau
It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will give social, political and economic… — Pope Benedict XVI
O Marvelous! What new configuration will come next? I am bewildered with multiplicity. — William Carlos Williams
This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold… — Francis Schaeffer
The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. — George Steiner
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole of its physical geography; give… — Victor Cousin
In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration.… — William Peter Blatty
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings,… — Allan Kaprow
Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new… — Georges Braque
It is the medium, or the specific configuration of the medium, that we call a work of art that brings feeling into being... — Robert Motherwell
Public postures have the configuration of private derangement. — Tom Stoppard
Security is always going to be a cat and mouse game because there'll be people out there that are hunting for the zero day award,… — Kevin Mitnick
Isabelle looked at him thoughtfully. "Did you seriously jump thirty feet out of a Malachi Configuration? Did he, Alec?" "He did," Alec confirmed. "I've never… — Cassandra Clare
Because beauty consits of it's own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can… — Muriel Barbery
So what's your team called?" asked Kate, twisting her legs into a pretzel-like configuration, "We're called the Winmates because we're inmates who win." Kate looked… — Trenton Lee Stewart

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