Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. Buckminster Fuller

There are no solids. There are no things. There are only interfering and non-interfering patterns operative in pure principle, and principles are eternal.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought, perhaps they might altogether cease.

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.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be a pattern to others and then all will go well.

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

This is a pretty typical pattern for March.

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

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.

Esther Hicks

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

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.

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.

Weather patterns change; we need to be prepared for that.

Weather patterns can change. We need to be prepared for that.

Marianne Williamson

There is a perverse comfort zone to living a small life. For women, that zone has to do with the fact that we're less likely to be challenged, we're less likely to be criticized, we're less likely to be called angry or strident, if we simply go along and acquiesce to the prevailing patterns of thought and behavior.

Mignon McLaughlin

Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.

Margaret Halsey

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns ...

Michael Ondaatje

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

Paul Reiser

They don't see that whole pattern. Worm/death. Worm/death. I would catch on.

Paul McGann

I love humans; always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.

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

In their second term, administrations tend to be more multilateral, more pragmatic. It's the pattern of every one, going back to Eisenhower.

But you have sort of a pattern now.

Gregory Bateson

It is impossible, in principle, to explain any pattern by invoking a single quantity.

George Eliot

Our consciences are not all of the same pattern.

James Purefoy

Im not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.

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.

Scott McCloud

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

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.

Jake Busey

Life is unpredictable when you get non-standard behavior patterns.