It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
“They never addressed each other by name, nor were they in the habit of exchanging endearments. What was the point, since both… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
In the neuter austerity of that terrain all phenomena were bequeathed a strange equality and no one thing nor spider nor stone… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown. — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
“The world needs someone they can admire from a distance; from a very far distance.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of… — Anne Bernays Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A man may have spent his life among the great ones of the earth, who to him have been merely boring relatives… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
[Speaking about same-sex marriage] It's about familiarity, and I think the only reason they're uncomfortable with the notion of same-sex marriages is… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
“Familiarity can provide the misguided illusion of understanding. Assume nothing.” — Truth Devour Copy Share Image