All objects lose by too familiar a view.

In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and in unexpected…

— Alexander Rodchenko

My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is…

— Sandy Skoglund

The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these…

— M. C. Escher

When we perceive any object of a familiar kind, much of what appears subjectively to be immediately given is really derived from past experience.

— Bertrand Russell

Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.

— Damon Wayans, Jr

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…

— Anonymous

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

— Karen Scalf Linamen

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

— Susanne Bier

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the…

— John McCain

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.…

— Steve Carell

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke