Quotes About Familiar

Horace glanced uncertainly at Halt. But the Ranger was already reaching up to push the cowl back from his face. As he did so, Horace glanced at the King once more. He was frowning. Something was familiar about the roughly dressed figure before him, but he couldn't quite . . . "Hello, brother," Halt said quietly.

skeins of mist like translucent silk, bending and unbending in the headlight tunnels...

The silence inside was familiar from all the years of mourning, a large house with parts of its soul carved away.

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Familiar ice stiffened Garrett's spine, and she let it freeze her professional smile on her face.

I pulled my wallet out and placed it on the bar, trying not to inhale as her scent wrapped around me. How had I not recognized it earlier? It was so strong, so sweet and familiar. So Clare. I breathed in slowly; she smelled like home.... Uh-oh, I'm in big trouble.

This is the sea! It was like a foreign country to me. Except, in truth, foreign places always frighten me. I like places that are familiar.

The Bible is familiar, life is strange. We bring the two together, to shed light on life.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there's never any doubt whose voice that is.

I'm very much a creature of habit.

I'm a creature of habit.

I am a creature of habit.

I'm creature of habit.

To the philosopher, infinity, knowledge, movement, empirical laws, etc., are things just as familiar {as family relations}. And as her dead brother and uncle are present to the peasant woman, thus Plato, Spinoza, etc. are present to the philosopher. The one has as much reality as the other, but the latter are immortal.

After all the packing was done and all the arrangements had been made, Amos felt the oppression of that blank interval in which one has nothing left to think of but the dreary future - the separation from the loved and familiar, and the chilling entrance on the new and strange. In every parting there is an image of death.

My kitchen looks like the one from my childhood - very homey, with a little bit of Alice in Wonderland!

The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.

I like to cast actors I admire, one's that are talented. Each one will bring something new to the part. This play has been done thousands of times and now certain characters are too familiar.

With 'The Humans,' I've found that because it's related to very familiar forms - the family play and the thriller, almost a genre-collison play - some people want it to be one or the other. Either less dark and more of a family comedy or a full-fledged thriller with blood and ghosts jumping out of closets. Everyone's taste is different.

I love finding ways to bridge the gap between my heritage and my new farming community. An ingredient such as za'atar might be foreign, but throwing it into something familiar - a hot dish or an eggbake - makes it more approachable.

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.

I follow Nat up a large center stair. It feels familiar, like following Ruth only now I'm on my way back to El. Velocity equals gravity at last. I had to gain some weight and distance before I could fall back to her.

Fuck the weather forecasters and their predictions. With magic, he'd just turned their Doppler radar upside down. Sapphire Phelan (Being Familiar With a Witch)

Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.