A Quote by Peter Greenaway

Human relationships are patterned and cross-patterned and restricted and limited and delimited and caged and freed again by the elaborate conventions, rules and games which we call civilisation. They're often absurd and farcical, and sometimes they're tragic, yet we acknowledge that they are necessary.

Peter Greenaway

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Peter Greenaway
British - Director
Born: April 5, 1942

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Frank Herbert

Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

Institutions provide procedures through which human conduct is patterned, compelled to go, in grooves deemed desirable by society. And this trick is performed by making these grooves appear to the individual as the only possible ones.

Peter L. Berger

It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.

Chris Cornell

I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.

Xun Kuang

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.

Margaret Mead

We all look stupid in patterned tights.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

Riane Eisler

I've patterned myself after my musical heroes.

Trisha Yearwood

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

Adam Petty

I'm also a fan of ridiculously coloured and patterned socks.

Daniel Radcliffe

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

Jimmy Smith

I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels.

Sydney Wayser

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

Jimmy Smith

One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.

Helen Vendler

There are so many rules about how you make a film and so many conventions that you can and can't do. I think people have forgotten that they are just rules that were invented for convenience - sometimes it is more convenient not to obey the rules.

Steven Knight

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