Patterned Quotes
28 quotes by 28 authors
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The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they…
— Ronald Reagan
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All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
— Helen Vendler
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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
— Zoot Sims
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Charles Bernstein's pairs of jingles of 'public discourse' are 'simultaneous double narrative / the space between's the other narrative/as if they're opposite.' In the space…
— Leslie Scalapino
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Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which…
— Peter Greenaway
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We tried to set up a company that patterned ourselves after Southwest in all the fun, the spirit, the great people, the smile, the efficiency…
— David Neeleman
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I patterned the accent after this guy I was in a play with, but that was three years ago. Now I'm listening to Tony Head…
— James Marsters
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Language leads a double life - and so does the novelist. You chat with family and friends, you attend to your correspondence, you consult menus…
— Martin Amis
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The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
— Paul Theroux
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Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over…
— Azar Nafisi
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I have patterned myself after my father and God.
— Adam Petty
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Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of,…
— Willard Gaylin
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The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible…
— Kenneth Lee Pike
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We must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a World Government, patterned after our Own Government with a legislature, executive and judiciary…
— Walter Cronkite
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I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.
— Daniel Radcliffe
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My eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Pabst, had done her master's thesis on Tolkien. She showed me how the trilogy was patterned after Norse mythology. She…
— Rick Riordan
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With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of…
— Dean Koontz
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What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The moth settled onto the curtain and sat still. It was an astonishing creature, with black and white wings patterned in geometric shapes, scarlet underwings,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
Who Wrote These Patterned Quotes
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