Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“...how a familiar room slowly changes colour as morning arrives.” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't know his personal history at all. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Set aside predictable, regular times to give full attention without being distracted by other concerns while also creating a safe, familiar place… — Magda Gerber Copy Share Image
It's always difficult when you want to do something really new, and you also want it to reach the masses, because the… — Jason Gann Copy Share Image
The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I had thought for years, probably 30 or 40 years, that it would be a lot of fun to try my hand… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden… — Philip Gulley Copy Share Image
If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a… — Alan Alda 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
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the… — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite. — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go… — Sean Patrick Flanery Copy Share Image
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image