What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking for autographs. We have more of… — Davy Jones Copy Share Image
Our most serious obstacle is the uncontrollable urge to convert everything to the familiar, to reduce it all to the level of… — E. J. Gold Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Life itself today has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Often for me, if I hear a song I know, it clicks for me and I hear it in a different way… — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices — friendly, vapor- like shapes, without substance, able to vanish or appear at will, to pass… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,'… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in… — Jacki Weaver 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
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be… — Sadakat Kadri Copy Share Image
There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to… — Jake Shimabukuro Copy Share Image
The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I can just talk about my world, and people relate to it because it's so familiar to them. It's them, it's not… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us… — Charles Handy 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
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
