Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

No matter what anyone says, suicide takes guts. It's for heroes and martyrs, truly vainglorious men. Archie was none of these. He was a man… — Zadie Smith
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As we drove uptown, I spotted a Kmart on a corner,with its familiar red sign.I cleared my throat."Wait. Can we stop for a minute?" "What… — L.A. Weatherly
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm… — Jack Gilbert
I hung my head, and I felt someone, Fang, gather me gently to him. My cheek rested on his shoulder, and my silent tears soaked… — James Patterson
Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine! — Margaret Atwood
I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile… — Annie Dillard
Alan: "I had terrible stage fright." Sin: "I'm not familiar with the concept of 'stage fright.'" A: "It's pretty awful. You end up having to… — Sarah Rees Brennan
Nellie Gomez awoke to a splitting headache. Worse, she was still hungry. "Where's my croissant?" she demanded of the person leaning over her. "Dear child,"… — Gordon Korman
But the person who stepped out of the front door was tall and thin, with short, spiky dark hair. he was wearing a gold mesh… — Cassandra Clare
You've never heard of Chaos theory? Non-linear equations? Strange attractors? Ms. Sattler, I refuse to believe you're not familiar with the concept of attraction. — Michael Crichton
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs;… — C.S. Lewis
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the… — George Orwell
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives,… — Maurice Sendak
While he was watching the ships, Buttercup shoved him with all her strength remaining. Down went the man in black. "You can die too for… — William Goldman
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you… — Mitch Albom
It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar.… — Erin Morgenstern
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Liesel crossed the bridge over the Amper River. The water was glorious and emerald and rich. She could see the stones at the bottom and… — Markus Zusak
It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in… — Donald Miller
I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of… — William Shakespeare
You never forget about things you've done that you know you shouldn't have done. They hang around your mind, linger like a thief casing a… — Cecelia Ahern
Jake's mouth found mine, his lips molding hot and soft to my own. His tongue tentatively tested the seal of my lips; I parted them… — Josh Lanyon
There are some delightful places in this world which have a sensual charm for the eyes. One loves them with a physical love. We people… — Guy de Maupassant
Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be… — Kurt Vonnegut

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