Familiar Quotes
Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us from primitive life must also be used in works of art.
Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange.
In America, there is no racial segregation. I'm not sure I'm quite familiar with this phrase.
If you want things to change to different things, you must think different thoughts. And that simply requires finding unfamiliar ways of approaching familiar subjects. Ask and it is given.
Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison.
Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
A photographer who wants to see, a photographer who wants to make fine images, must recognize the value in the familiar.
Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.
I love Russian culture. I don't know the young Russia, I'm not at all familiar with young Russia, but the old school Russia is good enough for me for the moment.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.
There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!
If your broker or investment advisor is not familiar with the concept of standard deviation of returns, get a new one.
To the untraveled, territory other than their own familiar heath is invariably fascinating. Next to love it is the one thing that solaces and delights.
We are put on this planet only once, and to limit ourselves to the familiar is a crime against our minds.
The crowd is the veil through which the familiar city beckons to the flâneur as phantasmagoria-now a landscape, now a room.
The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.
Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii.
Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.
Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.
Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.
Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.
Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.
Living with these teenage boys allowed me to see how much their psyches were like their girl counterparts. They were more familiar to me than I would have thought.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep.
From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before.
It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.
I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them.
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
