Steve Hadley is an interesting option as secretary of state because he is somebody that is, you know, familiar to power, served… — Susan Page Copy Share Image
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged. — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar — Garrison Wynn Copy Share Image
I have been especially fortunate for about 50 years in having two memory banks available-whenever I can't remember something I ask my… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both… — Paloma Picasso Copy Share Image
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Above all, one hideous figure grew as familiar as if it had been before the general gaze from the foundations of the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem… — Moby Copy Share Image
I cut off your hand. I have been living with your grief and your rage and your pain ever since. I don't… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Strange indeed is human nature. Here were these men, to whom murder was familiar, who again and again had struck down the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I was influenced by many, many different people in my student years, and I was always, I guess, immersed in a Navy… — Alan G. Poindexter Copy Share Image
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In every part of the world with which I am familiar, young people are completely immersed in the digital world - so… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
PALM, n. A species of tree . . . of which the familiar "itching palm" ("Palma hominis") is most widely distributed .… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
