Familiar Things Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
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Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
— Wynn Bullock
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I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places.…
— Isabella Rossellini
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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
— Andy Rooney
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
— Louis Nizer
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The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The…
— Wallace Stevens
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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
— Billy Corgan
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar…
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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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
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what…
— Meredith Grey
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Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are…
— Donald Judd
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TORN between The Familiar and Change. Familar is simpler. No loss but No gain and Change is exciting, enticing, a little sweeter; grass may be…
— Meek
Who Wrote These Familiar Things Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Familiar Things Quotes as follows: