“Something about her in this moment strikes him as being familiar. The motion of her arm? The shape of her hand? The… — Doug Dorst 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
We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I categorically deny that. The American left today as I know it - and believe me, I am very familiar with the… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
First of all, it's a blast. Just fun; it's a good environment to play. And Jayne and I have a great time… — Kendra Kassebaum Copy Share Image
Setting off unknown to face the unknown, against parental opposition, with no money, friends, or influence, ran it a close second. Clichés… — Amy Johnson Copy Share Image
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was this very deliberate move to just overlay an American reality in Iraq. I've never actually seen the map, but apparently… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a… — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
After all, is it not the way we humans shape the universe, shape time itself? Do we not take the raw stuff… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar,… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Both the man of science and the man of art live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it. Both, as… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Men don't like to step abruptly out of the security of familiar experience; they need a bridge to cross from their own… — Saul Alinsky 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
I guess it's interesting traveling, for me, because I never in my life until doing this felt a sense of being from… — Will Farquarson Copy Share Image
I believe that the capital of the Republic of Albania is a suitable venue for discussing the dialogue among religions and civilizations,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best testimony to the effectiveness of the reforms of 1852 is the fact, that men of a slightly later generation,… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
THE HERETIC'S DAUGHTER is raw, honest and completely captivating. Kathleen Kent takes what would seem to be a familiar subject and gives… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
This civil action is another case of a tragedy that has become all too familiar in the music industry: a business manager… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
To be conservative…is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Hype covers every surface of mass culture, and sports fans are intimately familiar with it - the heavy-breathing buildup that leads, inevitably,… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The house, the pond, the tree-it was all both overwhelmingly familiar and different from what she remembered-smaller and shabbier, somehow. It was… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
There are certain sorts of jokes which have only to do with the substitution of the unexpected word in a familiar context.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I spent a good portion of my life being unable to honor my feelings. When I started the process of having real… — Bonnie St. John Copy Share Image
I cannot sing the old songs Though well I know the tune, Familiar as a cradle-song With sleep-compelling croon; Yet though I'm… — Robert Jones Burdette Copy Share Image
Kerry Cohen's powerful, transfixing story will be familiar to many women, most of whom won't want to admit it. In this heartfelt… — Janice Erlbaum Copy Share Image
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
