If life is a loom, the pattern you weave is not so easily unraveled. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people. — John Coltrane Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is. — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge. — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her. — Leslie Morgan Steiner Copy Share Image
Lieutenant General Michael Flynn would fit into that broader pattern. — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
I just have this feeling if I take pi, well past all this static, take pi to 10 million, 20 million digits,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents,… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
I discover what I mean as I write. That can be both terrifically exciting and very dangerous, because when you look at… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
That she won the game startled me cold. The way she won, the pattern of her thought on the chessboard, charmed me… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
There are clear patterns of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. The big banks targeted Blacks and Latinos with toxic packages of subprime… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I was surprised by the level of sophistication of the Special Operation forces. Among them were anthropologists and PhD candidates. I felt… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With… — George Will Copy Share Image
During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore… — Charles Ferguson Copy Share Image
Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image
I wake up feeling clear and energized in the morning What is most profound for me about this light eating pattern is… — Gabriel Cousens Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
“When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
... not only is life put in new patterns from the air, but it is somehow arrested, frozen into form. (The leaping… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
ONE OF MY girlfriends was getting married. This was becoming an annoying pattern. — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data… — David McCandless Copy Share Image
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture. — Chuck Missler Copy Share Image
I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I try to visualize geometric shapes and patterns slowly spinning and expanding into infinity. — Martina McBride Copy Share Image