Pattern Quotes

The most difficult part of any crime novel is the plotting. It all begins simply enough, but soon you're dealing with a multitude of linked characters, strands, themes and red herrings - and you need to try to control these unruly elements and weave them into a pattern. Ian Rankin
You Try Crime Control Difficult Enough Characters Plotting Weave Unruly Part Simply Red Soon Most Dealing Linked Begins Any Pattern Them Themes Novel Elements Multitude Need
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. Isaiah Berlin
Denial Will Thought Values Men Own Control Shaping Makes Ultimate Conditioning Getting Human Human Beings Which Against Pattern Forms Them Your Therefore Beings
The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally. J. Philippe Rushton
Achievement Increasingly Valid States Economic Countries Within Prove Educational Been Canada Pattern Mean Found United Internationally United States
You've got to do your homework, and you've got to look at what makes people successful, what makes penalty takers unsuccessful. Ultimately, they're the ones kicking it, so how can you transfer the pressure on to them? How can you disrupt their pattern to make it difficult? Jack Butland
You People Pressure Homework Difficult Kicking Penalty Takers Unsuccessful Look Make Makes Got How Ultimately Transfer Pattern Them Successful Your Disrupt
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern. James Cameron
Me You Writing Air Once Those Out Point Like Ideas Crystallize How Juggling Balls Get Screenplay Pattern Then Certain Certain Point Many Float
The films that influenced me were so disparate that there's almost no pattern. James Cameron
Me Films Almost Were Influenced Pattern Disparate
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables. James Fenton
You Writing Easier Opinion Odd Line Lines In My Opinion Pattern Rhythms Create Avoid Using Syllables Numbers
No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode. James Fenton
Long Poet Indeed Mood Following Scheme Write Known Without Lines Ode Goes Irregular Short Form Rhyme Pattern Whim Forms Regular Required Sequence
The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, 'I'll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.' James May
Day People Thought One Day Laughed Bought Shirt Shirts Just Pattern Interesting Really Daft Keep Thing Started Buying Flowers
True parents do not see to it that their children grow in a particular way, according to a preferred pattern or scripted stages, but they see to it that they grow with their children. James P. Carse
Parents Way See True Particular Particular Way According Children Stages Pattern Scripted Preferred Grow
I auditioned for a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea' called 'The Ugly Duckling,' and I was cast as the King, starting a pattern of being cast in roles originally intended for men. I went to the first rehearsal, and I didn't get any laughs, and I choked and I quit. I walked away from it and joined the tennis team. Jane Lynch
Ugly King Men First Laughs Cast Joined Tennis Princess Version Walked Get Roles Intended Quit Any Being Pattern Choked Team Rehearsal Originally Away Starting
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture. Janet Echelman
History White Changes Striped Red Town Contemporary Industrial She Trade Era Fishing Discovery Surrounded Site Which Pattern Sculpture Portugal
Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' Jerry Leiber
Change People Song White Bass Our Marketing Kids Songs Bought Attracted Became Rock Still Were Did Hits Roll Transcend Being Pattern Why
I have a black pair of suede Jimmy Choos. I've only worn them once to a Sony event. The heels have these arrow plates in a pattern. There's gold, black and white and they're amazing! Jessica Mauboy
Amazing Black Black And White White Worn Once Jimmy Only Sony Arrow Gold Pattern Heels Them Pair Plates Event Suede
Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable. Jessica Williams
Love Best Myself Strength People Black Think Relate Alike Best Friend About More Talk Lot Oprah Friend Thankfully After Pattern Lesbians Things
I wouldn't like to live in a castle now, but I'd enjoy a visit to Restormel in Cornwall in its 13th century prime. It's a circular castle with the rooms built against the outer walls and quite intimate in size. Life there wouldn't follow the pattern of more classic castle design. Jo Beverley
Life Walls Live Enjoy Design Cornwall Intimate Circular Visit Outer Follow Classic More Castle Prime Like Built Quite Size Against Pattern Century Rooms Now
I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern. Jodie Foster
Word Think Destiny Just Psychological Fancy Pattern
What we're looking at is God's design, nature's template, and using that as a pattern to cut around and lay it down on a domestic model to duplicate that pattern that we see in nature. Joel Salatin
God Nature Looking Down Design See Lay Around Domestic Model Duplicate Pattern Cut Using
I have an occasionally recurring stutter, but not when in character on stage in a play. Odd. James Earl Jones has the same pattern; he stutters in everyday life but not when acting. Preparation requires an actor's concentration to make the words belong to another person, which is its own sort of trance. John Casey
Life Character Words Everyday Life Own Stage Preparation Everyday He Recurring Concentration Make Occasionally Sort Another Stutter Odd Person Same Trance James Which Pattern Requires Acting Actor Play Earl Belong
Yes, our tree has an interesting shape. The center branches reflect the shape of the zero curve. When extreme parts of the tree are reached the branching pattern changes to accommodate the mean reversion. John Hull
Reflect Tree Changes Our Extreme Shape Reached Parts Accommodate Yes Branches Center Curve Pattern Interesting Mean Zero
After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. K. Eric Drexler
Atoms Build Consequences Virtually Saw Machines Would Able Followed Could Arrange Lot Any Wanted Form After Pattern Realizing Molecular Molecular Machines Eventually Awful Awful Lot
My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me. K. Flay
Me You Way Thread Some Someone Haunts Struggled He Like Look Ultimately Child Died Pathology Common Pattern Inheritance Who Serious Dad Why Things
I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that. Kate Winslet
Grateful Past Think Characters See About More Shaped Clearly How Am Experiences Pattern Who Now Played
Ultimately, I think it takes a certain grit and determination to constantly re-prove to people that you're just as dedicated, just as determined, and just as capable as the entrepreneurs around you who may better fit the physical pattern - but on the flipside, women who succeed often become razor sharp through the process. Kathryn Minshew
You Women People Determination Better Become Think Constantly Physical Determined Through Entrepreneurs Takes Sharp Razor Around Ultimately Fit May Often Just Process Pattern Succeed Capable Grit Certain Dedicated Who
I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland? Keith Ellison
You Do The Right Thing People Police Own Community Right Thing Disturbing Brown My Own Bland Sterling Know Police Officers Protect Force How Eric Lot Deny Officers The Right Thing Pattern Rice Sandra Then Mike Who Garner Right Thing
Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of. Ken Hill
Song Simple Sometimes Random Will Build Find See Click Off Maybe Pattern Notes Use Sequence Actually
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