Quotes About Familiar

Then he heard a familiar voice. That's got 'em! Wonderfull spell, Fireball-- Fizban! Tanis groaned.

he smelled of something I do not know the name of which Father often smells of when he comes home from work.

To those familiar with the rhythm of living there are few surprises in this world.

But to me Barset has been a real county, and its city a real city, and the spires and towers have been before my eyes, and the voices of the people are known to my ears, and the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps.

In the first half of the play he is the anti-heroic and burlesque figure long familiar in comedy and satyr drama.

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

I am old, but the word to me means familiar, comfortable. Accustomed after long and venerable use. Not dilapidated and useless.

We have grown to trust blindly in our senses of balance and reason, and I can see where the mind might fight wildly to preserve its own familiar stable patterns against all evidence that it was leaning sideways.

flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

I feel an irrational craving to gaze at his familiar face from this place of safety all night. But I can't. And I'm being stupid, because this isn't old Joe, whom I loved and understood. This is new Joe, who is cruel and inexplicable. They only look the same.

I've always thought 'Today' is an iconic staple of morning life.

You'd think she'd be reasonable," he muttered. "Most people aren't, even though they'd protest that they are. They prefer to be coaxed or wheedled, or even driven. That way they never make a mistake: if there is one, it's always due to something or somebody else. This going headlong for things is a mechanistic view, and people in general aren't machines. They have minds of their own-mostly peasant minds, at their easiest when they are in the familiar furrow.

were almost commonplace.

the familiar and nostalgic colors and smells, tastes, and places in our memories.

How wonderful of [Jesus] to come back undercover, so that even the people who knew him best had to look, then look again, before they got the crawly feeling that they had seen him somewhere before. It was the perfect setup for people who wanted to know what made him different from anyone else they had met: his ability to reflect their humanity back to them, both familiar and strange, so that they never got tired of searching each other's faces for some sign of him.

The reckoning of time was based on the movements of sun and stars, nature's timekeepers, which were familar and carefully observed.

Reality show TV star is a familiar job, and to knock it would be the height of hypocrisy for someone like me who has made their career on television.

It is often said that definitions of Islamic government are imprecise. To me, however, they seemed to have a clarity that was completely familiar and also, it must be said, far from reassuring.

What makes art powerful is a flash of recognition, a frightening encounter with something familiar about the human condition.

I love walking down Clinton Hill's Greene Avenue. It's very neighborhoody.

But now and then there appears a novel which opens up a new world not by revealing what is strange, but by revealing what is familiar.

Something felt very familiar about the way I now began feeling. Suddenly Rachel looked super-good. Abnesti requested permission to pep up our language centers via Verbaluceâ"¢. We Acknowledged. Soon we, too, were fucking like bunnies.

If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.

Fiona Bruce isn't some token middle-aged woman at the BBC. Alongside her, at 52, my former running partner Sophie Raworth is a familiar face on our screens, with enough energy to run the scorching desert challenge, Marathon des Sables, to celebrate her 50th.