Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

Ruin still used Reen's voice-it was familiar, something that had always seemed a part of her. Discovering that it belonged to that thing...it was like… — Brandon Sanderson
I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it.… — Mark Twain
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar… — Rachel Naomi Remen
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza.… — Joshua Foer
Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore… — Billy Joel
Use your imagination until your big dream feels so familiar that its manifestation is the next logical step. — Esther Hicks
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to… — Suzanne Segal
My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice. — Jennifer Hudson
We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze,… — John Daniel
A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and… — Wallace Stegner
The painter sees the semblance of things and repeats it. That is, without fabricating the things himself, he fabricates their semblance; and, if that no… — Gerhard Richter
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed… — Charles Horton Cooley
Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten… — Charles Dickens
Practicing love often means feeling through fear: intentionally opening yourself when you would rather close down, giving yourself when you would rather hide. Love means… — David Deida
The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences,… — Noam Chomsky
Unless the desire to change remains strong, body and mind tend to return to old, familiar patterns. It takes time-from three to six months-for old… — Dan Millman
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our… — Emma Goldman
These proceedings may at first seem strange and difficult, but like all other steps which we have already passed over, will in a little time… — Thomas Paine
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These thoughts… — Ivan Turgenev
Then he exploded. "No!" he said. That familiar injunction. I'd heard it so many times. "No. I cannot take this steel. It would not be… — Bill Buford
Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock… — Maria Popova
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. — Charles Lamb
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. — John Stuart Mill
It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of… — Steven Spielberg

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