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.

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.

Leo Ornstein

By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear.

John Locke

Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

George MacDonald

Trust to God to weave your thread into the great web, though the pattern shows it not yet.

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.

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.

Rupert Sheldrake

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Rick Riordan

Patterns repeat themselves in history

Robert M. Pirsig

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

William J. Clinton

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.

Willem Dafoe

I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.