Familiar Quotes

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I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?" The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S.… — James Patterson
And it dawned on me that I might have to change my inner thought patterns... that I would have to start believing in possibilities that… — Bob Dylan
She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still. — Toni Morrison
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of… — Charles Dickens
Your body will never be familiar. — Leonard Cohen
I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come 'round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a… — Unknown Author
He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with. — Guy Debord
Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench… — Walter Moers
It is simple to follow the easy and familiar path of personal ambition and private gain. It is more comfortable to sit content in the… — Daniel Webster
It sometimes happened that you might be familiar with a man for several years thinking he was a wild animal, and you would regard him… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day… — Witold Gombrowicz
Wow," came a familiar voice, "Hypochondriac killed the cat." -Dess — Scott Westerfeld
Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up… — Kristin Cashore
I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar… — Kurt Vonnegut
The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost. — Carolyn Mackler
I was certain t find the familiar sting of salt, but what I needed to know was what kind: kitchen, sweat, tears or the sea. — Monique Truong
I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know… — Eve Ensler
Uh, the Council," I said. "Big shock, they aren't helping." Murphy looked like she might be asleep, but she snorted. "So we're on our own."… — Jim Butcher
The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her… — Kim Harrison
The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange. — Walt Whitman
Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light. — Dan Brown
Tell me what it is like to die," I answered. He dismounted from his horse, looking at me strangely the whole while. "You experience something… — Martine Leavitt
..in the harshest days of leaf-bare clanmate turns upon clanmate danger lurks behind familiar faces and one more warrior may be lost forever — Erin Hunter
She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other… — Zora Neale Hurston

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