Quotes About Familiar

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

96. For a prince of blue is a prince of blue because keeps 'a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere' (Lowell, 1870) This is how a prince of blue becomes a pain devil.

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon, it has such a sturdy constitution, that it is readily regarded as something natural even by its victims.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

And I here make a rule-a great and lasting story is about everyone or it will not last. The strange and foreign is not interesting-only the deeply personal and familiar.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.

Letting go is letting happiness in, in trying to hold on to whats familiar, we limit our ability to experience joy in the present.

Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.

You cannot cross the borders of the soul without at least once be tempted to look back… There are worlds over there. They are calling you to turn your way… familiar faces, strangers, us who have knocked countless times at its gates and they were opened for us.

A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

Thus the men whom nature's works can charm, with God himself hold converse; grow familiar, day by day, with his conceptions; act upon his plan; and form to his, the relish of their souls.

Remove the sentiment of love and discover how dangerously fragile are rendered one's ties to the familiar world. How seductive the possibility of utter change.

There's an old saying - There's No Place Like Home. Well, I went in the house next door, and it was very similar.

I found it odd that the transport was less interested in Sanctuary Moon, which took place on a colony, than Worldhoppers, which was about the crew of a large exploration ship. You'd think it would be too much like work—I avoided serials about survey teams and mining installations—but maybe familiar things were easier for

I went up on ART's control deck where it was quiet. It felt familiar in a good way, so I pulled the memory of my first time aboard so I could compare it. It was better without ART threatening to destroy my brain.

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

Nothing is more familiar or characteristic among Christians than assertion. Take away assertions, and you take away Christianity.

Hello, madness, my old friend. *

This is like deja vu all over again