And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. Votes: 3
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAll dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. Votes: 3
T. S. EliotCabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Votes: 2
Ambrose BierceDon't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. Votes: 2
Bryant H. McGillThe two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. Votes: 2
William Makepeace ThackerayI'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was. Votes: 2
Mitt RomneyThat familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldHabit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Votes: 0
Jane HirshfieldGreat things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Votes: 0
Jean de la BruyereI've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it. Votes: 0
Jeremy ShadaOutside Ted (Washington) and Bobby (Hamilton), nobody was familiar with (the 3-4), Votes: 0
Warren SappSaddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. Votes: 0
Brent ScowcroftSomehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. Votes: 0
Rickie Lee JonesMy friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. Votes: 0
Jessica SanchezA cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. Votes: 0
Igor StravinskyIn new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyThe choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. Votes: 0
Andrea GoegleinThe work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithRise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. Votes: 0
George WashingtonThe familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? Votes: 0
Ilsa J. BickYou're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Votes: 0
Tom StoppardWhoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism? Votes: 0
Colson WhiteheadVarnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeAll love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Votes: 0
Edmund SpenserWhen a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonHe who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelTruth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Votes: 0
Mark TwainWhen a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. Votes: 0
James BoswellSydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. Votes: 0
Richelle MeadAre you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way? Votes: 0
José Antonio BowenLove hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. Votes: 0
Dante AlighieriI am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. Votes: 0
Bela KarolyiThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenA mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. Votes: 0
Walter J. PhillipsIn writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody. Votes: 0
Jonathan EvisonThe older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 0
H. L. MenckenHatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyA world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn. Votes: 0
Eli PariserEach undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. Votes: 0
John Stuart MillAnyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. Votes: 0
Sam HarrisI'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all. Votes: 0
Edward SnowdenFire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question. Votes: 0
Kristin CashoreI think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings. Votes: 0
Steven ConradAnd, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Votes: 0
Claude McKayWhen I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with. Votes: 0
Devon WindsorBe civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinBeauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonWhen I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. Votes: 0
Billy CorganIt is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy. Votes: 0
Kenny WernerI'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. Votes: 0
Lana Del ReyI don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face. Votes: 0
Mary-Louise ParkerThe familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. Votes: 0
Willard Van Orman QuineMysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. Votes: 0
Wynn BullockI love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing. Votes: 0
Brendon UrieIn America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. Votes: 0
Trevor NoahAt first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. Votes: 0
Orhan PamukHow different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests. Votes: 0
Anne Bosworth GreeneWho, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Votes: 0
Charles ChurchillJack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. Votes: 0
Bobby JonesMost people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite. Votes: 0
Marina AbramovicPeeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams. Votes: 0
Suzanne CollinsI think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. Votes: 0
Deborah Ann WollBe not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. Votes: 0
Theodore ParkerThe best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. Votes: 0
Leo TolstoyA great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. Votes: 0
Christian KeiberWell, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. Votes: 0
Keri ArthurSunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. Votes: 0
Denis McDonoughI'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. Votes: 0
Manning MarableI think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. Votes: 0
Martin ParrPeople in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Votes: 0
Neil PostmanThe ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. Votes: 0
Joseph JoubertIf you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. Votes: 0
Henry David ThoreauSometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar. Votes: 0
Ron KaufmanWhen you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with Votes: 0
Sophie MarceauWhen you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. Votes: 0
Sophie MarceauFor my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording. Votes: 0
Duncan SheikI wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . Votes: 0
Jennifer HaighThe familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. Votes: 0
Edwin Percy WhippleAll that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. Votes: 0
Marcus AureliusAll truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. Votes: 0
Bryant McGillThough the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. Votes: 0
John LockeWe are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Votes: 0
Henry JamesIf one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. Votes: 0
Phyllis BottomeI read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. Votes: 0
Edward NortonThe organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. Votes: 0
David MitchellAND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST? Votes: 0
Jonathan Safran FoerIf there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door. Votes: 0
Blake SheltonIt is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. Votes: 0
William BarrettI know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar. Votes: 0
Vironika TugalevaIf I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. Votes: 0
Garry WinograndEl hombre es esencialmente un ser social; con mayor razón, se puede decir que es un ser familiar.
Juan Pablo IISet aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place for baby to spend time playing alone. Votes: 2 Magda Gerber
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. Votes: 1 William S. Burroughs