Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Roddy Woomble

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

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.

T. S. Eliot

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

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.

Rupert Sheldrake

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

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.