Fixed Action Patterns

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, action and/or patterns:

    “The sky is silent too,
    Hard as granite and as fixed as fate.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “We are oft to blame in this,
    ‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage
    And pious action we do sugar o’er
    The devil himself.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The ninety percent of human experience that does not fit into established narrative patterns falls into oblivion.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)