Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

God loves atheists. The former ones make the most compelling theists because they're so empirically familiar with how atheists think. — Criss Jami
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. — Nicolas Roeg
This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by… — George Gissing
There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is… — Christian Nestell Bovee
The only real reason for self-referencing is the fun factor. It's fun for the writer, getting little peeks at what old characters might be up… — Charles de Lint
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have… — Galileo Galilei
All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of… — Marcus Aurelius
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer. — Marcus Aurelius
People talk as if grief were just a feeling -- as if it weren't the continually renewed shock of setting out again and again on… — C.S. Lewis
We have overwhelming evidence that available information plus analysis does not lead to knowledge . The management science team can properly analyse a situation and… — C. West Churchman
Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no… — Alexander Woollcott
All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned… — Joseph Conrad
Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young. — Ray Bradbury
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. — James Galway
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on… — Andy Goldsworthy
I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would… — Jake Gyllenhaal
Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise. — Mason Cooley
When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. — Billy Corgan
I'm getting those familiar feelings, and I'm just going to enjoy the process of getting to know someone again. — Kevin Costner
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that… — Jefferson Davis
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar… — Jacques Derrida
Don't be so familiar and so much into the details. Keep people dreaming. Close the window, and make them wonder. — Celine Dion
Samurai films, like westerns, need not be familiar genre stories. They can expand to contain stories of ethical challenges and human tragedy. — Roger Ebert
I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the… — Harvey Fierstein
One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it… — Joshua Foer

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