Familiar Quotes

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Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language… — George Sand
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices,… — Cornelia Funke
Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it! — Michael Buckley
Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn… — Joel Osteen
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in their own right. The past, whether Renaissance… — J. G. Ballard
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it was killingly so… — Lionel Shriver
He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both… — Sherman Alexie
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
McKenna will always be a part of me, no matter where he goes. They say that people who've lost a limb sometimes feel as if… — Lisa Kleypas
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The… — Theodore Roethke
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known. — Ann M. Martin
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… — Carson McCullers
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old? — Stewart O'Nan
The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I… — Tennessee Williams
A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work. — Daphne du Maurier
I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book… — Haruki Murakami
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent… — Joyce Carol Oates
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions,… — Michel Foucault
Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it. — Koushun Takami
Now anyone who has ever been on a blind date is well familiar with “The Moment”—that moment where you first walk into the bar or… — Julie James
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
In an initial period, Photography, in order to surprise, photographs the notable; but soon, by a familiar reversal, it decrees notable whatever it photographs. The… — Roland Barthes

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