Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Magic is an exercise of a pattern of thought (sometimes represented by a gesture, ritual, or the calling of a true name)… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Once we remember that all that takes place during the first days of life on the emotional level shapes the patterns of… — Frederick Leboyer Copy Share Image
The mere possession of a vision is not the same as living it, nor can we encourage others with it if we… — Tim McCoy Copy Share Image
Men are definitely getting more avant-garde, experimenting with colours, patterns and fabrics. — Jasmine Guinness Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude towards nature is that form of heresy which denies substance and, in doing so, denies the rightfulness of creation.… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I cannot prove to you that God exists, but my work has proved empirically that the pattern of God exists in every… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If biologists so often forget the most universal of all biologic principles [variation], it is not surprising that men and women in… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Patterns of these UFOs appearance and behavior suggest a limited range of sizes and shapes of unidentified craft, despite the often-desperate efforts… — Don Berliner Copy Share Image
A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful? — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour… — Wendy O. Williams Copy Share Image
It should be possible to say that there really is such as thing as "genius" and that what it is, is precisely… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
As people, we love pattern. But interrupted pattern is more interesting. — Jay Maisel Copy Share Image
“I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems… — Edgar Schein Copy Share Image
But now the world breaks in on us, the world is shocked, the world looks upon our idyll as madness. The world… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's… — Bertrand de Jouvenel Copy Share Image
I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
