It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
We can cooperate more easily with those who more easily intelligible to us, who are more familiar to us. But the advantages… — David Wong Copy Share Image
Whether your focus is on preserving and strengthening family ties in a world of increasingly unstable relationships, gaining access to a decent… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
...a habit that had become one of those necessary things for the night... surely a body-friendly if not familiar-lying next to you.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
I'm specifically referring to this certain feeling of sadness, fear, and helplessness that descended on me at the Mexico City protest a… — Francisco Goldman Copy Share Image
O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O… — Celia Thaxter Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass… — Molly Antopol Copy Share Image
I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be… — Rondal Partridge Copy Share Image
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
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I don't think the role of the critic has changed very much. In the most positive sense, the music critic is one… — Michael Hersch Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis 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
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
I was not familiar with the Internet thing. Honestly, you know with all kinds of Internet media, I was not that familiar.… — Psy Copy Share Image
The light and the dark are the same. They share. They really do rub up against each other, and they are extraordinarily… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Stop, would you kindly? 'Would you kindly'. Powerful phrase. Familiar phrase? Sit, would you kindly? Stand, would you kindly? Run! Stop! Turn.… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
I'm always aware that there's a trick to television to prevent an actor from becoming too lazy. Once you become too familiar… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
