Structure Quotes

“Institutions are the rules of the game in a society or, more formally, are the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction.”

“To have a language is to have a set of rules.”

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

“The main thing is to have a framework... and then to find the freedom inside that framework.”

“The family as a reproductive unit is a specific structure... it is not eternal.”

“What is true for the infrastructure of a building is true for the infrastructure of a man: if the foundation is awry, the building will be distorted.”

“Every story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order.”

“The form of the work needs to have its own internal logic.”

“The end of a movie is very important. It's the last thing you see.”

“Every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Not necessarily in that order.”

“The skin and the bones of a building are the same.”

“All classification is a matter of correspondences.”

“All stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end, and you should tell them in that order.”

“Once a structure is in place, it will determine the behavior of whatever is in that structure.”

“I like the idea of music as a continuous thing, not something that has a beginning and an end.”

“A system just does what it does. It can't be blamed for that. It is structured to do what it does, and that's all.”

“The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.”

“We are women and men who, from the time of our earliest memories, have been in revolt against the sex-role structure and nuclear family structure.”

“The boss of all bosses? That's what you people call it. In our language, Cosa Nostra, we have a Capo di tutti capi.”

“Structures are the realities which endure, which are transmitted over long periods of time and which are slow to change.”