Familiar Quotes

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Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with. — Bobby Jones
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it… — Elizabeth Hardwick
It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten… — Marion Milner
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting. — Philip Guston
I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano.… — Florence Henderson
The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need. — Mark Rothko
Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your… — Sylvia Browne
Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch… — Jamake Highwater
A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it. — Walter J. Phillips
Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this… — Robert Genn
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe ... The whole wilderness is unity… — John Muir
The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words… — Leo Burnett
Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you. — Saint Francis de Sales
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have… — Rachel Carson
I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels and… — Orson Welles
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to… — Karen Thompson Walker
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes… — Samuel Johnson
Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of… — James P. Hogan
I used to work out in the gym a lot when I was younger. I was a competition body builder when I was 16 or… — Guy Pearce
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in… — Todd Rundgren
Chronic negative thinking and the emotions it invokes is, like many destructive behaviors, a form of addiction... it may not be very pleasant, but it's… — Lauren Mackler
A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as… — Criss Jami

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