Quotes about Familiar

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. Votes: 4

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Votes: 4

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Votes: 4

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Votes: 4

So many people in the world would rather stay in a situation that's painful but familiar because they're comfortable with it. Not a lot of people have the strength or heart to realize when something's not good for them and to turn around and be alone. Votes: 4

Familiar things are a comfort to us all. Votes: 3

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. Votes: 3

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere. Votes: 3

There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. Votes: 3

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Votes: 3

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it Votes: 3

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it. Votes: 3

Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of those now, but they're not sexual. Votes: 3

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair. Votes: 3

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Votes: 2

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. Votes: 2

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. Votes: 2

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. Votes: 2

Don't hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin. Votes: 2

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. Votes: 2

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was. Votes: 2

Something dies in us every time we change. To make space for the true, familiar well-worn habits must give way. Votes: 2

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus! Votes: 2

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. Votes: 2

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Votes: 2

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Votes: 2

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. Votes: 2

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence. Votes: 2

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. Votes: 2

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. Votes: 2

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. Votes: 2

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: 2

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. Votes: 2

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it. Votes: 2

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all. Votes: 2

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures. Votes: 2

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. Votes: 2

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. Votes: 2

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it. Votes: 2

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture. Votes: 2

I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do. Votes: 2

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Votes: 2

We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons. Votes: 2

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Votes: 2

We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. Votes: 2

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross. Votes: 2

In 'Before and After,' I identify the sixteen strategies that we can use to make or break our habits. Some are quite familiar, such as 'Monitoring,' 'Scheduling,' and 'Convenience.' Some took me a lot of effort to identify, such as 'Thinking,' 'Identity,' and 'Clarity.' Votes: 2

I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. When you are too tired to eat, you really need some sleep. A few days later, things become strange. Loud noises become louder and more startling, familiar sounds become unfamiliar, and life reinvents itself as a surrealist dream. Votes: 2

One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense. Votes: 2

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.' Votes: 2

I don't want to sound like a Hallmark card, but to be able to wake up each day with food and shelter, that alone is good. Forget aging and the fact that my butt is becoming a little more familiar with my knees than my tailbone. If you are six feet above ground it's a good day. So, give me more! Votes: 2

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that. Votes: 2

We pardon familiar vices. Votes: 0

Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange. Votes: 0

In marketing, the familiar is everything. Votes: 0

Your body will never be familiar. Votes: 0

How wondrous familiar is a fool! Votes: 0

No season now for calm, familiar talk. Votes: 0

Everything I am familiar with is gone. Votes: 0

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. Votes: 0

I'm not familiar with the metric system. Votes: 0

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. Votes: 0

All objects lose by too familiar a view. Votes: 0

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. Votes: 0

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible. Votes: 0

The familiar changes as we cling to it. Votes: 0

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. Votes: 0

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. Votes: 0

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. Votes: 0

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. Votes: 0

Some stories are so familiar its like going home. Votes: 0

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar. Votes: 0

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness Votes: 0

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar. Votes: 0

Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess Votes: 0

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event. Votes: 0

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar. Votes: 0

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar. Votes: 0

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. Votes: 0

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange. Votes: 0

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Votes: 0

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few. Votes: 0

Be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few Votes: 0

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. Votes: 0

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye. Votes: 0

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine! Votes: 0

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. Votes: 0

[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. Votes: 0

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar. Votes: 0

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. Votes: 0

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. Votes: 0

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with. Votes: 0

Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it. Votes: 0

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. Votes: 0

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend. Votes: 0

I'm always interested in something when it isn't familiar to me. Votes: 0

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. Votes: 0

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. Votes: 0

I've never played Dungeons & Dragons, but I'm actually pretty familiar with it. Votes: 0

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. Votes: 0

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. Votes: 0

Outside Ted (Washington) and Bobby (Hamilton), nobody was familiar with (the 3-4), Votes: 0

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used. Votes: 0

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. Votes: 0

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. Votes: 0

Nicklaus plays a kind of golf with which I am not familiar. Votes: 0

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. Votes: 0

We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. Votes: 0

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice. Votes: 0

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar. Votes: 0

Are you familiar with that play?In fact, we're almost living it! Votes: 0

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new Votes: 0

You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics? Votes: 0

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. Votes: 0

In new situations, I look carefully at appearances. In familiar ones, I glance. Votes: 0

The choice [is} a familiar one; stop making excuses and shift [your] perspective. Votes: 0

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. Votes: 0

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, Votes: 0

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with. Votes: 0

We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new. Votes: 0

A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible. Votes: 0

My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. Votes: 0

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw? Votes: 0

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable. Votes: 0

Be still for you may hear the hauntingly familiar song of a mermaid. Votes: 0

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. Votes: 0

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. Votes: 0

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true. Votes: 0

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism? Votes: 0

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. Votes: 0

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. Votes: 0

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Votes: 0

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. Votes: 0

Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise. Votes: 0

The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible. Votes: 0

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory. Votes: 0

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. Votes: 0

Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names. Votes: 0

Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love." - Votes: 0

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. Votes: 0

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. Votes: 0

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman. Votes: 0

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Votes: 0

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. Votes: 0

I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all. Votes: 0

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths. Votes: 0

I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings. Votes: 0

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it. Votes: 0

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. Votes: 0

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn. Votes: 0

In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody. Votes: 0

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way? Votes: 0

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 0

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. Votes: 0

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. Votes: 0

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question. Votes: 0

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Votes: 0

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. Votes: 0

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. Votes: 0

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. Votes: 0

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted. Votes: 0

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own. Votes: 0

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I've spent my life doing the opposite. Votes: 0

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams. Votes: 0

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. Votes: 0

In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase. Votes: 0

I think heroism comes in different packages. The superhero package is one that we're familiar with. Votes: 0

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing. Votes: 0

The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. Votes: 0

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. Votes: 0

How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests. Votes: 0

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar Votes: 0

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. Votes: 0

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with. Votes: 0

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. Votes: 0

If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for. Votes: 0

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. Votes: 0

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. Votes: 0

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy. Votes: 0

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face. Votes: 0

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept. Votes: 0

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. Votes: 0

The great familiar musical works are always greeted by the audiences as ever welcome and beloved friends. Votes: 0

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with Votes: 0

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. Votes: 0

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. Votes: 0

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. Votes: 0

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon. Votes: 0

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . Votes: 0

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording. Votes: 0

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. Votes: 0

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with. Votes: 0

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development. Votes: 0

Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar. Votes: 0

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. Votes: 0

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar. Votes: 0

A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. Votes: 0

People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Votes: 0

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher. Votes: 0

Well, strap my ass to a flagpole and hoist it skyward' an all to familiar voice declared. Votes: 0

If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications. Votes: 0

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar. Votes: 0

Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step. Votes: 0

For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording. Votes: 0

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. Votes: 0

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. Votes: 0

Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. Votes: 0

There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda. Votes: 0

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other. Votes: 0

Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice. Votes: 0

All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago. Votes: 0

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection. Votes: 0

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. Votes: 0

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar. Votes: 0

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. Votes: 0

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. Votes: 0

We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is. Votes: 0

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. Votes: 0

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. Votes: 0

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew. Votes: 0

I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. Votes: 0

Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned. Votes: 0

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. Votes: 0

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave. Votes: 0

In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. Votes: 0

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence. Votes: 0

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. Votes: 0

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. Votes: 0

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image. Votes: 0

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream. Votes: 0

The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression. Votes: 0

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. Votes: 0

AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST? Votes: 0

If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door. Votes: 0

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. Votes: 0

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. Votes: 0

Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. Votes: 0

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists Votes: 0

Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists. Votes: 0

The organs of Venus are familiar to all, but oh, my brothers, the organ of Saturn is the bladder. Votes: 0

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar. Votes: 0

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. Votes: 0

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. Votes: 0

All love is sweet Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. Votes: 0

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. Votes: 0

We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. Votes: 0

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them. Votes: 0

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. Votes: 0

I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology. Votes: 0

At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. Votes: 0

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. Votes: 0

I know of no better or quicker way to step into my greatness than to step out of what's familiar. Votes: 0

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last. Votes: 0

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris. Votes: 0

As with all travel, replacing familiar surroundings with the unknown fires an electric charge that awakens a sense of adventure. Votes: 0

If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. Votes: 0

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. Votes: 0

The real friends of the space voyager are the stars. Their friendly, familiar patterns are constant companions, unchanging, out there. Votes: 0

Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. Votes: 0

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown. Votes: 0

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile Votes: 0

I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good. Votes: 0

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar Votes: 0

The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. Votes: 0

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. Votes: 0

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. Votes: 0

What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! Votes: 0

A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar. Votes: 0

Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool. Votes: 0

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. Votes: 0

In documentary, which is the only thing I'm really very familiar with, women are very easily relegated into a producer role. Votes: 0

I dont know if youre familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and youre soaking wet within 10 minutes. Votes: 0

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. Votes: 0

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future. Votes: 0

I don't know if you're familiar with Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. You step outside the hotel, and you're soaking wet within 10 minutes. Votes: 0

Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. Votes: 0

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar. Votes: 0

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live. Votes: 0

If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one. Votes: 0

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar. Votes: 0

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. Votes: 0

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight? Votes: 0

There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. Votes: 0

I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face. Votes: 0

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. Votes: 0

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do Votes: 0

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. Votes: 0

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. Votes: 0

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with. Votes: 0

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. Votes: 0

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person. Votes: 0

The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room. Votes: 0

What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. Votes: 0

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. Votes: 0

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world. Votes: 0

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. Votes: 0

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. Votes: 0

There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. Votes: 0

Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. Votes: 0

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to. Votes: 0

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. Votes: 0

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there? Votes: 0

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar. Votes: 0

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. Votes: 0

Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. Votes: 0

I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.' Votes: 0

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure. Votes: 0

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world. Votes: 0

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. Votes: 0

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm. Votes: 0

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless. Votes: 0

..in the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever Votes: 0

Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar. Votes: 0

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us. Votes: 0

The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of surroundings. Votes: 0

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known. Votes: 0

It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange. Votes: 0

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it. Votes: 0

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary. Votes: 0

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment. Votes: 0

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues. Votes: 0

Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror. Votes: 0

Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. Votes: 0

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art. Votes: 0

IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Votes: 0

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar. Votes: 0

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with. Votes: 0

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends Votes: 0

Lovers and mystics are familiar with this sense of grandeur, this taste of joy - in abandoning oneself to the will of others. Votes: 0

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. Votes: 0

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar. Votes: 0

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable. Votes: 0

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again. Votes: 0

It's the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it." Votes: 0

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock. Votes: 0

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work. Votes: 0

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. Votes: 0

Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of Oxfordshire. Votes: 0

You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. Votes: 0

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done? Votes: 0

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. Votes: 0

Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies. Votes: 0

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. Votes: 0

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. Votes: 0

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it. Votes: 0

The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of the word. Votes: 0

The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? Votes: 0

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience. Votes: 0

Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs. Votes: 0

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons. Votes: 0

You should not have a favourite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well. Votes: 0

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all. Votes: 0

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists. Votes: 0

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!... Votes: 0

Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its own. Votes: 0

It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it. Votes: 0

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives. Votes: 0

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives." Votes: 0

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake. Votes: 0

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up. Votes: 0

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her. Votes: 0

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. Votes: 0

Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being. Votes: 0

If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room. Votes: 0

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. Votes: 0

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed. Votes: 0

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today. Votes: 0

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation. Votes: 0

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. Votes: 0

To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights. Votes: 0

East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now? Votes: 0

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. Votes: 0

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. Votes: 0

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook. Votes: 0

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from. Votes: 0

Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time. Votes: 0

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it. Votes: 0

At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else. Votes: 0

A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of your past. Votes: 0

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power. Votes: 0

I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it. Votes: 0

And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. Votes: 0

The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. Votes: 0

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also. Votes: 0

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. Votes: 0

My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people out a little. Votes: 0

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality. Votes: 0

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to. Votes: 0

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future. Votes: 0

I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. Votes: 0

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. Votes: 0

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same. Votes: 0

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! Votes: 0

The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life. Votes: 0

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar. Votes: 0

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home. Votes: 0

Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's familiar. Votes: 0

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these paradigms. Votes: 0

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point. Votes: 0

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety. Votes: 0

Near counts more than far, familiar more than different. Such is the indictment against the press, that it fails to treat similar tragedies with equal dignity. Votes: 0

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid. Votes: 0

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet. Votes: 0

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body. Votes: 0

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth. Votes: 0

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. Votes: 0

With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources of your own being. Votes: 0

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger. Votes: 0

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. Votes: 0

She had learned the lesson of renunciation and was as familiar with the wreck of each day's wishes as with the diurnal setting of the sun. Votes: 0

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles. Votes: 0

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. Votes: 0

Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us. Votes: 0

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. Votes: 0

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar... Votes: 0

I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not me. They're hearing themselves. Votes: 0

One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man. Votes: 0

I can't go to sleep unless I've watched at least two episodes of American Dad on Hulu or iTunes. It just feels familiar. It's like a lullaby. Votes: 0

Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison. Votes: 0

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever. Votes: 0

When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to. Votes: 0

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow. Votes: 0

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined. Votes: 0

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor. Votes: 0

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it. Votes: 0

Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long. Votes: 0

One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. Votes: 0

I watched Anderson Cooper 360 for a year before I realized that the second hour was a repeat of the first. I just thought his reporting seemed familiar. Votes: 0

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots. Votes: 0

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility. Votes: 0

As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African. Votes: 0

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces. Votes: 0

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. Votes: 0

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. Votes: 0

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing. Votes: 0

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. Votes: 0

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. Votes: 0

Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar. Votes: 0

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten. Votes: 0

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. Votes: 0

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new. Votes: 0

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Votes: 0

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. Votes: 0

Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action. Votes: 0

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand. Votes: 0

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book. Votes: 0

My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently. Votes: 0

I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them. Votes: 0

You hear the beginning of a melody, you should kind of know it's going to lead down this path. It should start feeling like a friend, like familiar. Votes: 0

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. Votes: 0

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound. Votes: 0

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. Votes: 0

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Votes: 0

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time. Votes: 0

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet. Votes: 0

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in Votes: 0

Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought. Votes: 0

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. Votes: 0

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. Votes: 0

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. Votes: 0

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love. Votes: 0

A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new. Votes: 0

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. Votes: 0

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. "It is too familiar. Too comfortable. Votes: 0

There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'. Votes: 0

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through. Votes: 0

If she did bitch-slap me, I'd bitch-slap her right back, but I resented the word bitch and all its familiar forms, as it was degrading to women and dogs everywhere. Votes: 0

We tried to act familiar, which meant we couldn't ask the kind of questions that might have helped us figure each other out and year after year the distance grew. Votes: 0

God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory. Votes: 0

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar. Votes: 0

William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. Votes: 0

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him and how familiar His face is to us. Votes: 0

My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light. Votes: 0

I really love Anglo music, and the language as well. Like, my kids, they - born here, Miami. So I just - a little bit more familiar with the language. Votes: 0

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother tongue. Votes: 0

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. Votes: 0

When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way. Votes: 0

I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that one with Glenn Close and Michael Douglas. Votes: 0

He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go. Votes: 0

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life. Votes: 0

I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet. Votes: 0

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter. Votes: 0

I am never so calm as after I have written. And the next morning I will feel the familiar anxiety and I will have to begin the process all over again. Votes: 0

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners. Votes: 0

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment. Votes: 0

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. Votes: 0

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench just to know how it tastes. Votes: 0

It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream. Votes: 0

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one. Votes: 0

Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is, What did I really see this day? Votes: 0

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script. Votes: 0

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano . Votes: 0

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure. Votes: 0

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Votes: 0

Coming, as I do, from mountain folk on one side and sea followers on the other, there are few old songs of the hills or the sea with which I am not familiar. Votes: 0

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. Votes: 0

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. Votes: 0

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love. Votes: 0