Love' is finding the familiar dear. / 'In love' is to be taken by surprise. — Mona Van Duyn Copy Share Image
“It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown.” — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it. — Marc Platt Copy Share Image
I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that… — Esther Dyson Copy Share Image
God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily… — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“Research confirms that we are more comfortable with people who are familiar looking, whether we know them very well or have not… — Glen Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about… — Ben Howard Copy Share Image
Everything I write doesn't appear to be biography until later. I often say that I've never written about anything I've experienced. Of… — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
And your typical TV series, you've got your police station, your apartment, the hospital, the starship, or whatever it is, and you're… — Ronald D. Moore Copy Share Image
You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something… — Michael Kors Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and… — Zhang Xiaogang Copy Share Image
Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I despair of persuading people to drop the familiar and comforting tactic of dichotomy. Perhaps, instead, we might expand the framework of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
It was amazing how much their [Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Shauna Robertson] process seemed familiar to me, translating that into the work… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.' — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
“Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image