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Quotes About Familiar

When you're doing something every week, it's kind of routine.
~ Tony Stewart
I just happen to like ordinary things. When I paint them, I don't try to make them extraordinary. I just try to paint them ordinary-ordinary.
~ Andy Warhol
The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
~ Jamie Wyeth
Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.
~ John Hench
I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, 'I'm going to come back here.' The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.
~ Stephanie Szostak
Memory, that exhausted repertory actor, going through the exhausted, familiar lines of some tired melodrama. It moved through the now meaningless scenes with a terrible practised proficiency for her benefit alone; and she was in the wings, condemned to watch it over and over
~ Philip Hensher
The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.
~ Philip Larkin
I should be able to stay in this state of ecstasy. Or astonishment. Or let myself be overwhelmed by the incomprehensibility of it all. But the feeling that prevails the moment he disappears is that of being abandoned. Perhaps because it is already a familiar feeling.
~ Philippe Besson
The ride to orbit was impressive, as it always is. But once I got on board the space station, it really felt like I was visiting an old home; it felt very comfortable.
~ Scott Kelly
It's nice to come back for visits. 'General Hospital' is my home.
~ Genie Francis
In this world, beauty is so common.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Freud siempre pensó que lo que él descubría en el inconsciente anticipaba lo que sucedía a los hombres en la realidad. Por mi parte he decidido invertir esa proposición y mostrar que lo que Freud creyó descubrir no era, en el fondo, sino el fruto de una sociedad, de un entorno familiar y de una situación política cuya significación él interpretaba magistralmente para presentarla como una producción del inconsciente.
~ Élisabeth Roudinesco
If the good people, in their wisdom, shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.
~ Abraham Lincoln
A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.
~ Adam Johnson
It's so far up your street it's got its tongue through your letter-box. Mum could never quite get the hang of conspiracies.
~ Adam Mars-Jones
It's so far up your street it's got its tongue through your letter-box.
~ Adam Mars-Jones
Of course, I'm a guitar player, so I'm thinking as a guitarist. I have to work within my physical limitations as to what my hands will do, and also the patterns I'm familiar with, and the places that my fingers are used to going.
~ Paul Gilbert
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
~ Karin Slaughter
I think, like most people, we are familiar with Aquaman. We grew up reading or watching this character on the peripheral. I was never so in depth with Aquaman as, let's say, I was with X-Men.
~ James Wan
The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
A good folk song tells you something you already know, in a form you're already familiar with, on terms that were set down long before you were born - when the country was primarily windblown dust, open wagon trains, and dysfunctional towns like Deadwood.
~ David Means
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
~ John C. Maxwell
But London is my favourite city as I've walked the streets of the capital so often, I know it really well.
~ Viv Richards
It's funny to me that people find other people getting coffee really interesting, or walking their dog in the dog park.
~ Jake Gyllenhaal