Familiar Quotes

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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. — John Henry Newman
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar… — Anais Nin
I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another. — Edward Norton
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their… — William Osler
Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues. — Mike Pence
Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is one trait, as controversial as it is familiar,… — Steven Pinker
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance… — Jean Piaget
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a… — Max Planck
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty. — Martha Plimpton
As an actor and as a person you come together with being in familiar territory although that has not been my whole life. That's been… — Robert Redford
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. — Ernest Renan
Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew… — Christina Ricci
My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their… — Sally Ride
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the… — Fred Rogers
Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with. — Eli Roth
The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the… — Jonathan Sacks
He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar… — Jane Smiley
Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do,… — Jane Smiley
I would be more familiar with Janet Jackson than I was with the Teardrop Explodes or Joy Division, because I didn't want to listen to… — Robert Smith
Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water,… — Wallace Stevens
We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called… — Charles R. Swindoll
Mrs. Obama has a hug - a sincere and friendly embrace - that has become familiar to countless supporters from coast to coast. And when… — Andre Leon Talley

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