Familiar Quotes

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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling forests to graze cattle or… — Diane Ackerman
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in… — Enid Bagnold
I am a little suspicious of industry paradigms. I feel like so many movies and TV shows feel so familiar because of over-reliance on these… — Alan Ball
The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the… — Eric Bana
Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat,… — Antonio Banderas
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. — Charles Baudelaire
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. — Joseph Addison
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. — Ambrose Bierce
But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a… — Bono
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and… — Carrie Brownstein
The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians:… — William S. Burroughs
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. — Barbara Bush
I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather… — Graydon Carter
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. — Helena Bonham Carter
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what… — Alan Cohen
I don't buy the tabloids, but you're surrounded by it all and people tell you things they've read. I'd be sitting on a train looking… — Francesca Annis
To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home. — Hal Borland
Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am… — Damon Hill

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