Familiar Quotes

1103 Familiar quotes by 886 unique authors

When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing the darkness, etch… — Volkmar Wentzel
A reader can only embrace the open-armed Dear Everybody .... In Benders unsent letters of apology or thanks, Michael Kimball transforms the familiar into the… — Christine Schutt
Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty
The past was a consumable, subject to the national preference for familiar products. And history, in America, is a dish best served plain. The first… — Tony Horwitz
The truth of the matter is that for all the drive-in movie references, what Weston Ochse has really created in Multiplex Fandango is a travelogue.… — Jeff Mariotte
I see manuscripts and books that are spoiled for the literary reader because they are one long stream of top-of-the-head writing, a writer telling a… — Sol Stein
Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected; they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of… — Carol P. Christ
We must be as familiar with the functions of our building as with our materials. We must learn what a building can be, what it… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every… — Nikolai Gogol
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. — Nicolas Roeg
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar. — Nicolas Roeg
We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew. Or… — Chang-Rae Lee
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality. — Alfred Stieglitz
On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become… — Lynn Johnston
All objects lose by too familiar a view. — John Dryden
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists — Jurgen Habermas
Thereâ€™s no legislation with regards to abortion that Iâ€™m familiar with that would become part of my agenda. — Mitt Romney
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has… — Eugene Ionesco
Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking… — Robert Rauschenberg
To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're… — Warren Christopher

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