"Public postures have the configuration of private derangement.…" — Tom Stoppard

More Configuration Quotes

This quote is filed under Configuration Quotes, one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• You've got this piece of wood and some wires, pickups and some strings. How somebody uses that configuration to make… — Don Felder
• In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by… — Unknown Author
• A place (lieu) is the order (of whatever kind) in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence.… — Michel de Certeau
• It is necessary not only to relieve the gravest needs but to go to their roots, proposing measures that will… — 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… — Francis Schaeffer
• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are… — 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… — George Saunders
• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing… — George Steiner
• What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention.… — Octavio Paz
• Yes, gentlemen, give me the map of any country, its configuration, its climate, its waters, its winds, and the whole… — Victor Cousin
• In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein… — William Peter Blatty

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