The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I used to babysit. And the kids I babysat were huge Hilary Duff fans, and so we used to have dance parties… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
So many galaxies, so many planets out there in the universe circling so many stars... it just feels like there's a very… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behavior and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
One recurring dream, many others have also: you go into a familiar house, discover a door or hallway, and find the house… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they… — Victor Francis Hess Copy Share Image
Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
Somewhere, within her, in a deep recess, crouched discontent. She began to lose confidence in the fullness of her life, the glow… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing… — Satoshi Kanazawa Copy Share Image
It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
“You see, a witch has to have a familiar, some little animal like a cat or a toad. He helps her somehow.… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
One of the shining moments of my day is that when, having returned a little weary from an afternoon walk, I exchange… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Genet raised his hand, and I squeezed my eyes shut, sure I would be receiving the worst backhanded slap of my life.… — Alexandra Bracken Copy Share Image
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A couple of pieces of advice for the kids who are serious about writing are: first of all, to read everything you… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. — Latrell Sprewell Copy Share Image
I think most films are too predictable. They follow familiar patterns. I suppose audiences like to know where they stand but I… — John Boorman Copy Share Image
I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that… — Elliott Hundley Copy Share Image
I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the… — Marilyn Horne Copy Share Image
Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar… — Noel Riley Fitch Copy Share Image
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in… — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas… — Andy Goldsworthy Copy Share Image
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
I've played many times against Lauri Markkanen, so I'm all too familiar with the kind of matchup nightmare he is for defenses. — Larry Nance, Jr Copy Share Image
It is very hard to stay alive just for your own sake. It is very hard to stare into day after day… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
With your reorientation as awareness, difficulty calls upon your resources - not first the resources that you're familiar with, but the resources… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
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