Familiar Quotes
When we turn our gaze to the inside, it becomes difficult to locate this familiar sense of self. To overcome that fear we need to feel special in some way.
Sometimes we become so expert in our own domain, we forget that customers may be less familiar.
I have an abiding faith in the fact that time will change the value of photographs. What you see today may be so familiar to everyone that they don't immediately appreciate or value it.
Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me.
My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
Today you may not be familiar with the happiness habit. But like any new behavior, happiness can be learned.
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.
As a student in England, I studied French and English literature. I read L'Etranger and the rhythm of the novel felt familiar to me - very African.
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with
I'm not that familiar with Andrew Garfield, but if the powers that be chose him, I'm sure he'll be good.
Bella?" a different voice called from the distance. No! Please let me be imagining that horribly familiar voice.
I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.
East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.
It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.
You're familiar with the tragedies of antiquity, are you? The great homicidal classics?
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier.
The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?
Fat girl, terrestrial, my summer, my night, How is it I find you in difference, see you there In a moving contour, a change not quite completed? You are familiar yet an aberration.
A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.
I really want to bring the message of love that is Islam to people; bring something new to that familiar face.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
I see them and they see me but the lovers — we recognise one another: there is light in our eyes.
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.
Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!
Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.
Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.
James Altucher reminds me for Stephen King... when is about Stephen King his 2 sons, probably the one or no, no both they look like him.
...reflection can transform something familiar.