Quotes About Familiar

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

The florid style is the reverse of the familiar. The last is employed as an unvarnished medium to convey ideas; the first is resorted to as a spangled veil to conceal the want of them. When there is nothing to be set down but words, it costs little to have them fine.

There is a sense of culture-shock in picking up this volume: we encounter the familiar stories, but in a novel garb.

When we see ourselves and our world defined by stereotypical expectations, the very nature of our engagement alters. And our susceptibility to this transformation of behavior may diminish our capacity to appreciate important nuance in our surroundings. In a world where we're looking for 'familiar' or 'similar' through favorable lenses and seeing 'unfamiliar' as somehow lesser, we are at risk of being blind to the self-evident.

It is as easy for the imagination to form monsters and to join incongruous shapes and appearances as it is to conceive the most natural and familiar objects.

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without controul, into the most distant parts of space and time, in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness

Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

How wrong we are to ignore our hearts to follow the familiar path.

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

Swimming is normal for me. I'm relaxed. I'm comfortable, and I know my surroundings. It's my home.

Some stories are so familiar its like going home.

Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Hey there. Here's something familiar, a bat. Hope you like it.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known

Somehow, knowing that Alzheimer's is coming mocks all one's aspirations - to tell stories, to think through certain issues as only a novel can do, to be recognised for one's accomplishments and hard work - in a way that old familiar death does not.

All familiar things can open into strange worlds.

The mind, conditioned as it is by the past, always seeks to re-create what it knows and is familiar with. Even if it is painful, at least it is familiar. The mind always adheres to the known. The unknown is dangerous because it has no control over it. That's why the mind dislikes and ignores the present moment.

She is still a bundle of engaging possibilities rather than a finished picture. Of the mother there is nothing to say, for that excellent lady evidently requires familiar surroundings to bring out such small individuality as she possesses. In the unfamiliar she becomes invisible; and Longlands and she will never be visible to each other.