#patter

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up! ↗

— Wendy O. Williams

#behaviour #bored #conformity #could #hate

When the wave, equally suddenly, retreated, it left a void which resembled that of the morning, yet had a character of its own, because though the pattern was repeated it was in reverse order: the scattered schoolchildren who passed my window now were on their way home and there was something unrestrained and boisterous about them, whereas when they had walked past on their way to school in the morning they still bore the silent imprint of sleep and the innate wariness we feel toward things that have not yet begun. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#impressions #patterns #equality

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#being #certain #essayist #fantasy #follow

I wouldn't say there is one guy that I would say patterns himself after me. ↗

— Dominique Wilkins

#guy #himself #i #me #patterns

To understand is to perceive patterns. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#perceive #understand

If we turn to palaeontology to tell us about our biological evolution it is to prehistory that we look for evidence of the evolution of specifically human patterns of behaviour. ↗

— John G. D. Clark

#behaviour #biological #evidence #evolution #human

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies. ↗

— Ben E. King

#buddies #come #coordinator #dad #guess

The way is long if one follows precepts, but short... if one follows patterns. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#long #patterns #precepts #short #way

The Saviour reigned in all their hearts, and they successfully copied the pattern of meekness and gentleness, which he had left them. ↗

— John Strachan

#gentleness #had #hearts #left #meekness