Familiar Quotes · Page 11

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

— Jeanette Winterson

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

— Manning Marable

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

— Trevor Noah

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

— Samuel Johnson

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

— Anonymous

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

— Livy

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.”

— Alexandre Dumas

“✿´´¯'•.¸¸. ི♥ The still, deep pond of what is familiar only bothers us when our personal spirit is ready for more.•¸.•♥•.¸¸.•♥ •¸..•*¨*•”

— Jeanne McElvaney

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in…

— Jackson Katz

I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to…

— Sigmund Freud

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Maynard James Keenan

Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is…

— Rachel Naomi Remen

I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of…

— Alan Ball

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market…

— Rita Ora

I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in…

— Jacki Weaver

Hey, sexy. Why haven’t you called?” The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see…

— Abbi Glines

Palestine is an extremely familiar place to me. Someone like me who lives everywhere in the world cannot be contained. If my…

— Elia Suleiman

The more we incline our hearts and minds toward God, the more heavenly light distills upon our souls. Gradually, things that before…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

People are more familiar with pictures of Jacques Mesrine that had been taken of him at the end of his life, when…

— Vincent Cassel

Men display less self-doubt and lead with what seems always like a sense of force and direction. We are not as familiar…

— Maureen Chiquet

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.…

— Arika Okrent

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which…

— Charles Dickens

The idea of watching an entire film basically from one person's perspective - and not even really from their perspective, but [it's]…

— Bun B

Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in…

— Miranda July

Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is,…

— Frank Zappa

. . . I do think that deep down, a lot of my work is about people trying to make reasonable accommodations…

— David Rabe

To travel only a few blocks in his own homeland, an elderly grandfather waits to beg for the whim of a teenage…

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Phyllis Bottome

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

— Sam Harris

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Brent Scowcroft

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

— James Boswell

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

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Confucius