Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Art is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar. We have to recognize that the language of art, all art,… — Jeanette Winterson
The conventional mind is passive - it consumes information and regurgitates it in familiar forms. The dimensional mind is active, transforming everything it digests into… — Robert Greene
I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want… — Unknown Author
We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another… — Erik Satie
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world… — Oswald Spengler
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More often, I have felt God's… — Brian D. McLaren
Possibilities are completely different. When you ask 'what is possible?' you must stretch your imagination out of the confines of the familiar. To live a… — Nicholas Lore
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data bank. If you… — Nicholas Lore
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes. — Edgar Degas
I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up. — Christopher Nolan
The most familiar precepts are not always the truest. — Marcel Proust
The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and become familiar with the characters in… — Galileo Galilei
I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much… — Harvey Pekar
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the… — J C Ryle
You have never seen such animals as these who without a sound or a sign carry you off. You race with them across the long… — Joy Williams
Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to those… — Pema Chodron
Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if… — Pema Chodron
Life consists in learning to live on one's own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one's own-be familiar and at home… — Thomas Merton
It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar… — Victor Francis Hess
Even in Madison's day, the practice of gerrymandering for partisan advantage was familiar. In the late seventeen-eighties, there were claims that Patrick Henry had tried… — Jeffrey Toobin

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