Quotes About Familiar

I started with superhero stuff - 'X-Men' and 'Spider-Man' and 'Batman' and 'Hellboy' - but I wasn't familiar with 'The Strain' until I started the show.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

Having served as North Carolina Attorney General for 16 years, I am all too familiar with the racism, bigotry and full-out white supremacy that exist in corners of our society.

The fact that a crime might have been committed with impunity in the past may make it seem more familiar and less gruesome, but surely does not give it any greater legitimacy.

I grew up on movie sets, so it was something I just found familiar. When I was growing up also, in high school, I would audition for things and my parents let me audition for things - with the thought that I wouldn't get them. And then I would get them... sometimes, and it would surprise them.

My daughter loves to be surprised. And she loves to surprise me. She loves to create games where either one or both of us are surprised, or go away, and then come back. And she loves to play them over and over, and over again. The combo is familiar. Go away. Come back. Surprise! She is only two. I better get used to this.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

In dreams, nothing is lost. Childhood homes, the dead, lost toys all appear with a vividness your waking mind could not achieve. Nothing is lost but you yourself, wanderer in a terrain where even the most familiar places aren't quite themselves and open onto the impossible.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.

It was beginning to feel practised.

They were more like a type. Not so much regulars as clubbers—you know, the ones who hit the circuit every night or every Friday and make the rounds. Not really anybody's regulars and not really anybody's friends, but they're there all the time and you sort of know who they are.

The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray hair and a beard. He was tall and thin and looked vaguely familiar to Harry.

...careful the morning lest it wake from slumber the city half-encumbered by the morning mist ...

Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.

In all honesty, I'm not really familiar with Stevie Wonder's music, since country is more of my style. I really have no idea what I am doing.

It's the nature of the beast within us to keep going back to the familiar rather than to strap on faith and face the future.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.

Make your habits your beloved home.

...yes, I am your priest, your magician, your lover - I make charms to incant your presence...

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Could you get O positive this time? That's my favorite.