Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johan Huizinga

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

There is a growing body of concern about the lack of any coherent strategy for arranging roadside furniture.

I am going to get them all moved on Monday. We are arranging for trucks to remove all of them to secure storage areas.

If you insist on having things reserved and purchased from the U.S. beforehand, rather than arranging to purchase them locally, that can have a profound effect on costs.

Jonathan Jackson

Being on 'Nashville' and working with some incredible people like T-Bone Burnett and Buddy Miller - so many wonderful, incredible musicians that I've been blessed to play with and observe - that has continued to shape the process of arranging music, writing music.

Anne Dudley

I had actually always wanted to be a film composer, but when I was at college there didn't seem to be any easy route into it-or any route into it at all. I found myself in this pop world and arranging things for people and dealing with orchestras and string sections, and I suppose I thought I ought to be doing this myself.

Robert Stewart

This is a good idea. The display and material were great. I also liked the idea of people giving up their keys or arranging for designated drivers for Super Bowl weekend.

Quincy Jones

The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging.

Bertrand Russell

The difference between mind and brain is not a difference of quality, but a difference of arrangement. It is like the difference between arranging people in geographical order or in alphabetical order, both of which are done in the post office direct

A man should work hard to earn wealth so that he does not have any problem in arranging things necessary for running household successfully.

It was sort of liberating in a way. We had to concentrate on arranging the tracks, we couldn't embellish them needlessly.

Cameron Diaz

I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.

Max Frisch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Sarah Hall

Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

I wanted to create the ambiance of a garden. In the 17th century this probably would have been a reception hall for important people, but I even put in a sink for cutting and arranging flowers. I think it's where the nuns used to keep their toiletries.

Musicians were always coming and going in our house. My parents didn't play much, but they were forever arranging these parties for artists. As a result, they didn't have to play that many records.

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.

Michael Palin

I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do it right, and at one point my voice went completely.

Stone Gossard

I love making music. I love being involved in arranging music. It's very natural to know what I want to hear next and come up with ideas that are variations of what might be good.

Before you knew it, people raised their hands and started arranging things. One person made a tool-sharing list and another a baby-sitting list.

Tony Evans

We can assist with arranging the mortgages, removals and legal aspects concerned with each purchase.

Hamish Bowles

I was a fashion editor for years in London before I came to 'Vogue,' and I spent my life arranging the folds of a ball gown skirt for a picture and pinning fabric and using all those stylist tricks. And you don't have to do that now because they can do it in Photoshop.

But the major mechanism is really arranging constructive social contacts.

Anton Corbijn

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

Seamus Heaney

The problem as you get older... is that you become more self-aware. At the same time, you have to surprise yourself. There's no way of arranging the surprise, so it is tricky.

Elizabeth Strout

I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.

We've been seeing examples of eBay members arranging local meet-ups in their areas; and since there is crossover, we thought it was an interesting company, so we chose to make an investment.