All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.”… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who… — Francis Atterbury 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
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Travel opens different eyes to different things, shows things we've never seen before, shows the world from entirely different angles. That's the… — Danny Gregory 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
Oil policy, policy toward the United States, policy toward Iran, Bahrain, Yemen, very unlikely, I think, to see significant change. These policies… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story. — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
We became more familiar with [Bernard Leach], and with this familiarity came, I wouldn't say contempt, but certainly an awareness that everything… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I write about adversity, I praise adversity, not to be pessimistic, but rather to strengthen myself. The more familiar that you are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees,… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off-putting… — David Twohy Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and… — Vilmos Zsigmond Copy Share Image
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