I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data but we couldn't see any.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

Family love is messy clinging and of an annoying and repetitive pattern like bad wallpaper.

Before this government came to power many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmental damaging consumption patterns.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.