Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgment, giving him not just… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I saw a specialist who asked me 'Are you familiar with the phrase faecal impaction?'. I said I think I saw that… — Bob Monkhouse Copy Share Image
One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
What I've said before, only half in joke, is that everybody in Ireland is famous. Or, maybe better, say everybody is familiar. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher… — Jamie Foxx Copy Share Image
Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned… — Charles D. Broad Copy Share Image
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a phrase you hear in Israel: "We're not Jews, we're Israelis." What that means is that the stereotype we're familiar with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
[Buzzing at the Sill] deals with the margins of America, a lot of parts unseen. Well, parts that are seen and familiar… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before… — Josee Chouinard Copy Share Image
Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
I really wish you hadn't worn that sweater,'he muttered into her ear. 'It's good practice for you,' she replied,her lips moving against… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you're ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose,… — Joseph Devlin Copy Share Image
The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The body is in some sense perennially at risk. The possibility of bodily injury is ever-present, even in the most familiar of… — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
The familiar photographs that many people carry with them always obviously belong to the order of fetishes in the ordinary sense of… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image