In writing, I've found, playing it safe and familiar is no way to energize anybody. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. — Wynn Bullock 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
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine! — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording. — Duncan Sheik Copy Share Image
“I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to… — Ashley Rickards Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's frequent horseback journeys from London to Stratford, and from Stratford to London, must have made him familiar with the county of… — Katharine Lee Bates Copy Share Image
We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know… — Brooks Atkinson Copy Share Image
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable… — Greg Bryk Copy Share Image
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think that it's always more interesting to combine familiar sounds together in a new way and with newer sounds if you… — Britta Phillips Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity… — Mark Twain 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
We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They attack the victim, and then the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. This is American justice.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We know that every person who is loved feels transformed, unfolded, and he unfolds everything, the most intimate as well as the… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
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
The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem… — Andrew Zimmern Copy Share Image
I thought I was the only one who still enjoyed his record collection, but after reading 'How Records Got Their Groove Back,'… — Anthony Pilla Copy Share Image
It's kind of like being a writer in the sense that you always hear other writers say, 'Well, the best way to… — Jherek Bischoff 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
Documentary photography is becoming more illustrative as people become more familiar with photography’s limitations and vulnerabilities. Reality has always been interpreted through… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and… — Maeve Brennan Copy Share Image
The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise. I felt… — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
I was never conscious of filming except for when I was location scouting. In a way, that is the most important part… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
