Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good… — Andre Leon Talley
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. — William Makepeace Thackeray
I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I… — Twyla Tharp
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than… — Marlo Thomas
Are you familiar with 9/11? Building 7? You know what was in there? All the Enron stuff. I guess that building went down on its… — Jesse Ventura
I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six… — Jacki Weaver
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads. — Armstrong Williams
As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be… — James Wolcott
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of… — James Wolcott
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in… — Alfre Woodard
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang
You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things… — Philip Larkin
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,… — Donna Tartt
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep. — Albert Camus
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
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages… — Cornelia Funke
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out… — Alice Hoffman
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are… — Cesare Pavese
Some stories are so familiar its like going home. — Louisa May Alcott
Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home… — David Sedaris
Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new! A new year ... a fresh, clean… — Bill Watterson
By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like… — Arundhati Roy
They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is… — William Shakespeare

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