Familiar Quotes

Amazing how the heart clutches at anything familiar, whimpering Mine!Mine!

Everything I am familiar with is gone.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.

The flesh of past lovers looks both familiar and strange.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

The familiar changes as we cling to it.

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, how many different ways there are of being.

We may not see the connection between the name Jesus and the phrase "save his people from their sins," but Joseph would have. He was familiar with the Hebrew language.

I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.

We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw.

Expensive, well-executed, and familiar ads convince the investors, as nothing in the black and white tables of assets and debits can, that the company is important and prosperous.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

I've always been happy just to be working. It doesn't really matter for me how many people are familiar with my name or my picture, or whatever.

The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

Anybody who is familiar with the historical data from the IRS knows that raising income tax rates will likely actually reduce federal revenues.

How wondrous familiar is a fool!

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

In Dreams...well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it.

If landscape is a character for me, then it helps if I'm familiar with it and I already have a take on it.

American decline is real, though the apocalyptic vision reflects the familiar ruling class perception that anything short of total control amounts to total disaster.

I'm not familiar with the metric system.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.

Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven.

No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects.

Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

When he laces his fingers through mine, my heart does its now familiar panicked flight, bumping painfully against my ribs. My shoulder twitches as if to pull my hand back, but my heart overrules it.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

The Stones were nasty and ugly and doing songs I was familiar with.

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 at it.

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

The everyday, familiar sense of self who lives in time, and that dimension which we've called presence, that is always here, that is still and quiet.