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Quotes About Familiar

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
~ Hosea Ballou
Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.
~ Ani DiFranco
Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.
~ E. Lockhart
There is no point to writing fiction without risks. I would rather anger a reader than bore her. I would rather speak my truth and be laughed at or ignored than stick to what is easy and familiar.
~ E. Lockhart
The familiar will always remain the likely starting point for the rendering of the unfamiliar; an existing representation will always exert its spell over the artist even while he strives to record the truth.
~ E.H. Gombrich
He was more skilled than they were in the principles of human existence, but he was not so indecently familiar with the examples. A sordid village scandal—such as Stephen described as a huge joke—sprang from certain defects in human nature, with which he was theoretically acquainted. But the example!
~ E.M. Forster
William and Emily There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the glow of youthful love, You also, after years of life, Together, feel the sinking of the fire, And thus fade away together, Gradually, faintly, delicately, As it were in each other's arms, Passing from the familiar room - That is a power of unison between souls Like love itself!
~ Edgar Lee Masters
There is something about Death Like love itself! If with some one with whom you have known passion, And the glow of youthful love, You also, after years of life Together, feel the sinking of the fire, And thus fade away together, Gradually, faintly, delicately, As it were in each other's arms, Passing from the familiar room- That is a power of unison between souls Like love itself!
~ Edgar Lee Masters
the corner by the old Piggly Wiggly building, I felt the familiar edge
~ Edie Claire
I turn away reluctant from your light, And stand irresolute, a mind undone, A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight From having looked too long upon the sun. Then is my daily life a narrow room In which a little while, uncertainly, Surrounded by impenetrable gloom, Among familiar things grown strange to me Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark, Till I become accustomed to the dark.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
He could see tiny particles of dust drifting in the air between her ankles, each fleck tumbling individually in and out of the sunlight, and there was something intensely familiar in their arrangement.
~ Anthony Doerr
Just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, and just as we must understand functions, we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of the day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise, for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
~ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Most of my family and friends are very familiar with the human space flight program and with the excitement of becoming an astronaut.
~ Shannon Walker
I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.
~ Cassadee Pope
When my record comes on, you know that's a DJ Khaled record. That's my formula, and the people love it.
~ DJ Khaled
Same Bat time, same Bat place.
~ Francesca Lia Block
We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
~ Frank Herbert
The devil you know is better than the devil you don't.
~ Frank McCourt
If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room.
~ Frank Peretti
Amalia smiled, and that smile, although a sad one, lit up her sombre face, made her silence eloquent and her strangeness familiar. It was like the telling of a secret, a hitherto closely guarded possession that could be taken back, but never taken back entirely.
~ Franz Kafka
One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.
~ Octavio Paz
I think the Japanese love young, tannic red wines much more than most Americans do. Perhaps it is because Asians have a great fondness for tea, and tea is a very tannic beverage. Therefore a young, tannic red wine is something familiar to an Asian palate.
~ Robert M. Parker, Jr.
I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherface was, but I had never seen any of the films, so I didn't know what the meaning behind it was.
~ Alexandra Daddario
The one thing about being on 'ER' that has changed is that I'm more easily recognizable.
~ Linda Cardellini