It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my… — Kara Swisher Copy Share Image
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I… — Domenico Gnoli Copy Share Image
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“With so much unknown in this life, how little it takes for a face, a grove of trees, an outcropping of stone… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
We should think more about it, and accustom ourselves to the thought of death. We can't allow the fear of death to… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting,… — Feist Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the… — Alban Berg Copy Share Image
I was really interested in the ritual of fire dancing. I saw it when I was a kid. My parents took me… — Miroslav Penkov Copy Share Image
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one… — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word… — Ali Koehler Copy Share Image
In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
And he's pressing into her and she into him, bodies shivering, like they are two scared, lost children, starving, starving to be… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
These days I'm mostly familiar with two parts of L.A.: one is movie culture, and the other is Asian culture. The Westside… — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Often we want to go back to the familiar, go back to where we felt our life pause, but nothing is ever… — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books . . . finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
What new thoughts are suggested by seeing a face of country quite familiar, in the rapid movement of the rail-road car! — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar.… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
The Learner must be led always from familiar objects toward the unfamiliar, guided along, as it were, a chain of flowers into… — Charles Willson Peale Copy Share Image
It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase… — Ti West Copy Share Image
I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good. — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with. — Michael Scott Copy Share Image