I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The familiar mood that awaits the sensitive young who are poor and dispossessed is a mood of sharp and painful inferiority, of… — Peter Abrahams Copy Share Image
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. — James Galway Copy Share Image
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity. — James G. Frazer Copy Share Image
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I got to do the movie, and people who enjoyed 'The Birdcage' came out to see me on stage when I did… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
Drill everything, mine everything, roll back regulations, tweak the science, expedite permits. Sound familiar? The Republicans offer up more 19th-Century solutions to… — Jeff Goodell Copy Share Image
I didn't get a chance to meet Glen [Beck] for this movie. I did meet him a few years ago, coincidentally, before… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of… — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Christian Research Institute will continue doing what we do ... making people so familiar with truth that when counterfeits loom on the… — Hank Hanegraaff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Gimme the tune. Do I like this tune? Does it sound like another tune that I like? The more familiar it is,… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be alone in the air at night is to be very much alone indeed. . . cut off from everything and… — Pauline Gower Copy Share Image
The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists — Jurgen Habermas Copy Share Image
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers… — Carl Clinton Van Doren Copy Share Image
An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“I’d been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
'Parenthood' is a story about people's lives - the title helps. Very early on during the show's launch, the title was something… — Jason Katims Copy Share Image
I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school,… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us,… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Records can ruin you. That's why it's important to be as intimately familiar as possible with the history of recorded music, I… — Keith Fullerton Whitman Copy Share Image