Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Lin

To fly, we have to have resistance. It's all about turbulence. Reacting to images of wave patterns in fluid motion.

You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.

You're seeing a big shift in the spending patterns of consumers.

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

Pema Chodron

We are undoing a pattern... It's the human pattern: we project onto the world a zillion possibilities of attaining resolution.

Pema Chodron

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.

Starhawk

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

T. S. Eliot

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

Ralph Fiennes

I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

Scott McCloud

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.

Raymond Chandler

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

Pauline Kael

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money and you become them.

Roddy Woomble

I like patterns in words. I'm not really interested in meaning.

Ursula K. Le Guin

All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.

Gerard Butler

I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

James Cameron

The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern.

Gary Snyder

When making an axe handle the pattern is not far off.

Esther Hicks

You have the ability to quickly change your patterns of thought, and eventually... your life experience.

Ian Stewart

Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is.

Francis Bacon

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

George Eliot

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

It is very important that they get a uniform pattern of water.

It's just the way the large-scale atmospheric patterns have set up.

It's still too early. We just don't have the patterns yet.

Fred Hoyle

I have little hesitation in saying that as a result a sickly pall now hangs over the big bang theory. As I have mentioned earlier, when a pattern of facts becomes set against a theory, experience shows that it rarely recovers.

Kate DiCamillo

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

Isak Dinesen

To me, the explanation of life seems to be its melody, its pattern. And I feel in life such an infinite, truly inconceivable fantasy.

But you have sort of a pattern now.

Joni Eareckson Tada

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and His glory.

John Krasinski

In a lot of relationships, when you're an adult, you realize that you've actually just been repeating a pattern. When someone breaks that pattern and it makes you realize what's right or wrong about the person. When you actually have to confront it, that's probably why a lot of adult relationships don't survive.

The first two years are years of adjustment. And typically a pattern is set for the rest of the marriage.

Louise Hay

For every habit we have, for every experience we go through over and over, for every pattern we repeat, there is a NEED WITHIN US for it.

Lloyd Alexander

If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled.