Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

It's strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man's mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth… — Wilson Rawls
That's when I hear the scream. So full of fear and pain it ices my blood. And so familiar. I drop the spile, forget where… — Suzanne Collins
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a… — Franz Kafka
The idea hovered and shimmered delicately, like a soap bubble, and she dared not even look at it directly in case it burst. But she… — Philip Pullman
Many of us have made our world so familiar that we do not see it anymore. An interesting question to ask yourself at night is,… — John O'Donohue
What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Nothing much of lasting value ever happens at the… — Michael Ondaatje
No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force… — Lorrie Moore
Let me introduce my friend, Cat.’ The redhead, and for some reason, she looked familiar. ‘Her husband Bones’ – here Vlad smiled coolly at the… — Jeaniene Frost
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had… — Thomas Hardy
The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new… — Alain de Botton
Oh man sometimes I wake up feel like a cat runover. Are you familiar with the stoical aspects of hard drinking, of heavy drinking? Oh… — Martin Amis
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same. — Sarah Dessen
I walked around Soho's street for over an hour, running into familiar faces but never once stopping to chat. It was then that I felt… — Tablo
He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken… — Margaret Atwood
Hey, sexy. Why haven’t you called?” The cooing sound came from behind me, and I glanced back over my shoulder to see a familiar-looking brunette.… — Abbi Glines
In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access;… — John Edward Williams
What more could one ask of a companion? To be forever new and yet forever steady. To be strange and familiar all at once, with… — Pico Iyer
Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. They are loaded with prejudices, not based upon anything in reality, but based on… if… — Wayne Dyer
She warned me about Mr. Herondale, though, said he’d likely be rude to me, and familiar. She said I could be rude right back, that… — Cassandra Clare
January. It was all things. And it was one thing, like a solid door. Its cold sealed the city in a gray capsule. January was… — Patricia Highsmith
For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he hated Margaret at times, when he thought of that gentle familiar… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the… — Abbi Glines
He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because… — Stormie Omartian

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