Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies… — M.C. Escher
The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see… — Carl McCoy
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to… — Novalis
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. — Joseph Conrad
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than… — John Welwood
Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our… — Unknown Author
In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I… — Kellie Pickler
It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find… — Howard Schultz
Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things;… — Lascelles Abercrombie
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it… — George Santayana
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are… — Michael Lewis
Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must… — Charlotte Mason
The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the… — Joseph McCabe
I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in… — Candice Olson
If you address yourself to an audience, you accept at the outset the basic premises that unite the audience. You put on the audience, repeating… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve… — Joseph McCabe
To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the… — Dan Eldon
Many of us spend our entire lives in the same bubble - we surround ourselves with people who share our opinions, speak the way we… — Adam Braun
Realism sets itself at work to consider characters and events which are apparently the most ordinary and uninteresting, in order to extract from these their… — George Parsons Lathrop
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion. — William Safire
Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon… — W. Somerset Maugham
It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces. — Latrell Sprewell
Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it… — James Galway
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do — Ednita Nazario
At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else. — Obie Trice

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