Familiar Quotes · Page 6

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

— Patton Oswalt

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm very familiar with a lot of different skills.

— Darrelle Revis

“I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.”

— Samantha Schutz

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

— Duncan Sheik

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

— Margaret Atwood

“...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.”

— Jennifer Egan

I love shopping online for clothes, but only from places that I'm familiar with their sizing.

— Brendon Urie

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

— Martha Plimpton

“You're that song. I don't know any of the words, but the tune is so damn familiar.”

— Vi Keeland

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

— Noah Hawley

Nothing will surprise us more than when we get to heaven and see the Father and realize how well we know Him…

— Ezra Taft Benson

Every one must be familiar with the often expressed opinion, that, as a practical politician, Mr. Mill's career was essentially a failure.

— Millicent Fawcett

“coming to the market for so long that it was as familiar to her as the house she lived in, yet it…

— James Maxwell

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

— Toni Morrison

We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.

— Roger Ebert

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

— Anonymous

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places,…

— Mary Oliver

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

— Marc Newson

Anything that feels familiar and comfortable [is home]. It's wherever I feel safe and safest. Most of the time, that's just Barbados.…

— Rihanna

Before I could do anything rash, a familiar voice behind me said, "Hello, Sadie." The other girls let out a collective gasp.…

— Rick Riordan

Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the…

— James Keller

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

Indeed, when God's glory dwells in me, there is nothing too far away, nothing too painful, nothing too strange or too familiar…

— Henri Nouwen

Most people choose movies that provide exactly what they expect, and tell them things they already know. Others are more curious. We…

— Roger Ebert

I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line…

— Twyla Tharp

I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish…

— Mahatma Gandhi

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and…

— Curtis Hanson

I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge.…

— Margaret Atwood

A good school is a relative concept, and the better schools are located in more expensive neighborhoods. But when everyone bids more…

— Robert H. Frank

Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph…

— Paul Auster

Modesty teaches us to speak of the ancients with respect, especially when we are not very familiar with their works. Newton, who…

— Francis Atterbury

For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build…

— Margaret Mead

Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest…

— W.N.P. Barbellion

Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney…

— Jared Diamond

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

— John Stuart Mill

When you know what you're doing and you're more familiar, that breeds confidence.

— Trent Williams

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.

— Marcus Aurelius

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

— Ambrose Bierce