Unpatterned Quotes & Sayings

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. — Daniel Holloway

And who among us is not neurotic, and has never complained that they are not understood? Why did you come here, to this place, if not in the hope of being understood, of being in some small way comprehended by your peers, and embraced by them in a fellowship of shared secrets? I don't know about you, but I just want to be held. — Mary Ruefle

As a brand, Ahla is one of Strauss-Elite's strongest. But we need to do a lot of marketing in order to regain market leadership. I have no doubt that we will do that, even if it takes time. — Ofra Strauss

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working? — Matt Mullenweg

1. The mind programs the functioning of the brain. We are born with a limited number of "hardwired" reflexes, but the human being has the "longest apprenticeship" of all animals, during which learning takes place. "Homo sapiens," he wrote, "arrives with a tremendous part of his nervous mass left unpatterned, unconnected, so that each individual, depending on where he happens to be born, can organize his brain to fit the demands of his surroundings. — Norman Doidge

Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive. — F Scott Fitzgerald

All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason. — Jay Electronica

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 between, outside representation but in the 'presence' of it, we are provoked to laugh. Bernstein alters our language to open a double range that's public and mind at once and inseparable, that is 'Poetry is patterned thought in search of unpatterned mind.' Girly Man is doing it. — Leslie Scalapino

Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. — Jimmy Lyons

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise. — Philip Kerr

I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette. — Mihail Sebastian

Learn to love blackness while there is yet time, blackness
Unpatterned, blackness without horizons. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk. — William Cowper

You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on. — Barnes Wallis

Above us, the stars watched. Below us, the world rushed on. But here, there was only the wall and the paint.
And me.
And Neil. — Marie Sexton

There are times when you do a play when you are living in the character over a two-and-a-half-hour period or longer, and you come to the end of the night, and you can feel like you were hit by a truck. — Kevin Spacey

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me. — Jill Scott

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it ... Never. — Hunter S. Thompson