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Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing. -- Lee Ritenour
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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. -- Michael Palin
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. -- Warren Zevon
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. -- Alan Bennett
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. -- Tom Peters
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. -- Charles Eames
The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. -- Ronald Fisher
History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. -- Johan Huizinga
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. -- Gus Van Sant
Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush. -- Scott Weiland
I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School. -- Dylan Lauren
Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability. -- Adam Savage
I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don't like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself. -- Diane Arbus
You give us the pitching some of these clubs have and no one could touch us, but God has a way of not arranging that, because it's not as much fun. -- Sparky Anderson
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. -- Seamus Heaney
I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to. -- Natasha Bedingfield
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. -- Stone Gossard
I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting. -- Andy Rooney
Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly. -- Lydia Davis
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. -- Cameron Diaz
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. -- Anton Corbijn
I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can't see what I'm doing. I grope for the right words. I bump against the wrong words and stumble and stub my toe and curse and keep trying to guess what belongs in the space. -- Joanna Scott
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. -- Hamish Bowles
Maybe Cubism started this way. Memory re-arranging a face. -- Mary Rakow
The act of multitrack recording is the act of arranging. -- Quincy Jones
That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior. -- B. F. Skinner
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit. -- Bashar al-Assad
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Blending is just like writing lyrics or finishing up the song, rearranging and arranging. -- Maynard James Keenan
I'd make my promises now if I wasn't so busy arranging to keep them. -- Orson Welles
I used to start re-arranging my school uniform, hitching up my skirt to be more exciting-looking. -- Mary Quant
Innovation is the creation of the new, or the re-arranging of the old in a new way -- Mike Vance
There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. -- Learned Hand
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. -- John Sterling
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. -- Vincent Van Gogh
The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time arranging it. -- Peter Eisenman
At this very moment, God's working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith! -- Joel Osteen
Besides, going on tour and playing songs and arranging things, going to practice, it's all I know to be productive. -- Stephen Malkmus
You know, when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997 I realized I had spent too long arranging my attitude. -- Carly Simon
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. -- Bill Wyman
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism. -- Bertrand Russell
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences. -- W. Somerset Maugham
We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so. -- Blaise Pascal
The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable. -- Terence McKenna
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 black. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Todd added bourbons to the custards creams on the plate, arranging them in two neat yellow and brown rows, his annoyance expressed through the symmetry of biscuits. -- Rosamund Lupton
Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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 was a zyxedist. -- Walter Moers
The real problem is arranging that experience in a way that tells a story, which is just incredible enough to be interesting, but credible enough to be believed. -- Richard Helms
Walk in nature. Take the time to be still. Practicing arts, arranging flowers, doing some drawing, working on a computer, brings a sense of stillness into your life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The vain.- We are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - in order to deceive ourselves. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The artist must ever play and experiment with new means of arranging experience, even though the majority of his audience may prefer to remain fixed in their old perceptual attitudes. -- Marshall McLuhan
Many individuals and organization units contribute to every large decision, and the very problem of centralization and decentralization is a problem of arranging the complex system into an effective scheme. -- Herbert Simon
For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me. -- Koren Zailckas
I go to the studio every day, but I dont paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things. -- Gerhard Richter
Telling our stories is what saves us. The story is enough... The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of narrative is, by definition, holy. -- James Carroll
In the midst of the shopping and the wrapping and the arranging of presents under your tree this Christmas, may you not forget the gifts you cannot yet hold in your hands. -- T. D. Jakes
In arranging the bodies in order of their electrical nature, there is formed an electro-chemical system which, in my opinion, is more fit than any other to give an idea of chemistry. -- Jons Jacob Berzelius
Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench. -- Gene Spafford
My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children. She was always arranging church activities such as a bazaar. -- Maureen Forrester
The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration. -- Bashar al-Assad
There is the first satisfaction of arranging it on a bit of paper; after many, many false tries, false moves, finally you have the sentence you recognize as the one you are looking for. -- Vladimir Nabokov
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 and have no anxiety about what is going to happen. -- Johanna Spyri
The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level. -- Horace Silver

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