My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I don't often get recognized for my work, but I look familiar. I'm just a working-man actor. I go and audition, and… — Joel Murray Copy Share Image
In comedy, you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity. — Michael Che Copy Share Image
There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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. — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other. — Ehud Barak Copy Share Image
You can make great meals without meat that are, of course, much more healthy for the same price, but it takes a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We… — Warren Giles Copy Share Image
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I have a huge span of fans, some who know all my radio songs and are familiar with my popular stuff and… — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We can no better imagine what will be happening on the moon 500 years from now than Columbus could imagine contemporary Manhattan.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of choices in the world as far as what one can do for a living. It's best to… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
It shouldn't freak you out to realize that God's eyes are on you. Because He doesn't see you through eyes of disapproval… — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image
There was just one moon. That familiar, yellow, solitary moon. The same moon that silently floated over fields of pampas grass, the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The whole story of the universe is implicit in any part of it. The meditative eye can look through any single object… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Many spiritual seekers who say their wish is to awaken don't actually want what they believe they do. This becomes clear sometimes… — Jan Frazier 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… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
There is a value in repetition. When we repeat certain phrases and even actions, like fingering prayer beads, we create a quiet… — Stephen J. Binz Copy Share Image
I like using LEGO bricks as a medium because I enjoy seeing people’s reaction to artwork created from something with which they… — Nathan Sawaya Copy Share Image
Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have… — Hannes Alfven Copy Share Image
The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I… — Ice T Copy Share Image
To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's… — Tony Shalhoub Copy Share Image
When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
“But he’s the most familiar thing in this house, and I fall asleep better, listening to Baz breathe, than I have since… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. — Celine Dion Copy Share Image
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
My fiction is only just over the horizon. I present a world that's different but it's familiar enough that it freaks people… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
