#patter

I have patterned myself after my father and God. ↗

— Adam Petty

#father #god #i #myself #patterned

There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#breaking #breaking up #going #jail #making

You know, it sounds like you guys didn’t really think this all the way through. You plugged us into an equation and predicted outcomes. Well, I got news for you, nimrod. In this equation of yours, we’re variables. We’re going to vary. What you sick jerks don’t seem to get is that I’m an actual person. She’s real too. She’s a person. All of us are! And I’m done jumping through your hoops. You can tell yourselves that you’re doing all this to save the world, but really you’re just a bunch of psycho puppet-masters who probably didn’t date enough in high school. ↗

— Maximum Ride in Maximum Ride School's Out - Forever by James Patterson

#maximum-ride #variables #dating

If we are to be honest with ourselves, we must admit that the "Negro" has been inviting whites, as well as civil society's junior partners, to the dance of social death for hundreds of years, but few have wanted to learn the steps. They have been, and remain today - even in the most anti-racist movements, like the prison abolition movement - invested elsewhere. This is not to say that all oppositional political desire today is pro-white, but it is usually anti-Black, meaning it will not dance with death. ↗

— Frank B. Wilderson III

#blackness #marxism #orlando-patterson #race #racism

Unapologetically smitten with thunderstorms...the thought of rough sex beneath an acid washed moon and hydrated stars... ↗

— Brandi L. Bates

#james-patterson #jk-rowling #love #new-moon #sex

Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max ↗

— James Patterson

#maximum #patterson #ride #rich

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#lee #pattern #reaction #classics

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. ↗

— John Grierson

#appreciation #attend #changes #creative #forces

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. ↗

— Robert Greene

#failures #forgetfulness #mistakes #offense #patterns

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme. ↗

— Diane Johnson

#already #apparent #becomes #deepening #end