Familiar Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Familiar Novelty Want
Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
The familiar can feel good - especially with so much uncertainty when we turn on the news. But it doesn't uplift us, challenge us,… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds. — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“Before familiarity can turn into awareness the familiar must be stripped of its inconspicuousness; we must give up assuming that the object in question needs no explanation. However frequently recurrent, modest, vulgar it may be it will now be be labeled as something unusual.” — Bertold Brecht Copy Share
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown. — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head. — Damon Wayans, Jr Copy Share Image
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary. — Jacques Audiard Copy Share Image
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