"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future. — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
I started my own foundation. If you aren't familiar with it, it's called 'Febreezing the homeless.' Who would you rather give money… — Daniel Tosh Copy Share Image
“This particular book felt familiar, like an old friend. The characters drew me into their world, and I blocked out mine for… — Rebecca Raisin Copy Share Image
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with. — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am… — Johnny Mathis Copy Share Image
If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Having lived in Utah all of my life, I can tell that in many ways I know of no place more lonely,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of… — Chris Zylka Copy Share Image
The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to… — Emily Carr Copy Share Image
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of,… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse… — C. West Churchman Copy Share Image
The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Memories do not change, and change is the law of existence. If our dead, the closest, the most beloved, were to return… — Teresa de la Parra Copy Share Image
It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
That was in 1994, July, 1994, and I can remember that like it was yesterday too because it was the culmination of… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“What if you were wrong? What if everything you ever believed was a lie? What if you missed your opportunity because you… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The more familiar people are with the ecosystem that lives below the surface - invisible until you're actually in the ocean -… — Jon Bowermaster Copy Share Image
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Books are curious things. When they want to live, they find a way to become part of the lives that need them."… — Mark Danielewski Copy Share Image
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone. — Lisa Alther Copy Share Image
Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're… — Jason Biggs Copy Share Image
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Here, the broader issues are already familiar, and discussion has focused at a more sophisticated and detailed level. Within the philosophy of… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to… — Peter Banks Copy Share Image
At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
![“I worked with and became close with these characters [in Twilight] and the people who are portraying them and it's kind of, I think, a safety net that we had, and it's going to be kind of strange not going back to set with these people that I've become so familiar with.” quote by Ashley Greene](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/58f/ashley-greene-4512_be-kind_i-worked-with-and-became-close-with-thes_381715.jpg)
![“There's a kind of edge to what you're doing, the kind of leading edge of what you're doing. Inside that edge [are elements you] are familiar with, and are probably becoming slightly bored with, as well, over a period of time. "I've pulled that one out before. Oh, no, I can't I'm just fed up with…” quote by Brian Eno](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3a8/brian-eno-776_becoming_there-s-a-kind-of-edge-to-what-you-re-do_1618456.jpg)
![“The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.” quote by Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f29/octavio-paz-1790_caress_the-mexican-is-familiar-with-death-he-jo_1900840.jpg)
