So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis… — Mark Forsyth Copy Share Image
The familiar childhood admonition of 'counting to 10' before taking action works because it emphasizes the two key elements of anger management… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I really don't like being surrounded by a lot of people who I don't know, who I'm not familiar with, who I… — Jared Cannonier Copy Share Image
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
We're all really happy with what's familiar. But what's inevitable in life is change. That's what life is. — Toni Collette Copy Share Image
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
I'm not intimidated by embracing a familiar form and what's familiar about it and making it my own. It is, I think,… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle… — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
A fascinating, insightful, and new treatment from the perspective of an intimately involved former Iranian senior official on Iran's nuclear program and… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the… — Christopher Doyle Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
The difficulty really is psychological and exists in the perpetual torment that results from your saying to yourself, "But how can it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It may well be feared, that there is not enough Biblereading among us. It is not sufficient to have the Book. We… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
Neil Shepard's (T)RAVEL/ UN(T)RAVEL takes us from the sublime -- Paris in Spring, sunset on Corfu -- to an unscheduled toilet stop… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar… — Leo Burnett Copy Share Image
“I don't know how you are so familiar to me - or why it feels less like I am getting to know… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan Copy Share Image
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
A miracle signifies nothing more than an event... the cause of which cannot be explained by another familiar instance, or… which the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can… — James Galway Copy Share Image
We cannot alter the essential shape of a single letter without at the same time destroying the familiar printed face of our… — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up. — Garry Winogrand Copy Share Image
“All characters and events in this book are made up. If some of them seem familiar, it’s because so many of us… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
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,… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image