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[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar.
— Bharati Mukherjee
It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.
— Marilynne Robinson
For a moment my hands stopped aching from the cold, and instead longed for the familiar feel of music running through them.
— Patrick Rothfuss
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
— Samuel Johnson
A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way.
— Christian Keiber
The Tibetan word for meditation is gom, which can be more literally translated as "become familiar with.
— Lodro Rinzler
God is a place of safety you can run to, but it helps if you are running to Him on a daily basis so that you are in familiar territory.
— Stormie O'martian
By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It seems to her that your family is at once utterly familiar and entirely unknown.
— Penelope Lively
Tell, tell more sounds interesting and little familiar...
— Deyth Banger
Many of Juan Diego's demons had been his childhood companions-he knew them so well, they were as familiar as friends.
— John Irving
Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way?
— Jose Antonio Bowen
My head didn't ache, but my heart did. The longing for Aspen's arms was so familiar, it was like it never left.
— Kiera Cass
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
— Laura Bell Bundy
Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair - and it's not there.
— Gloria Steinem
A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
— Catherynne M Valente
What are you two doing barefoot and half naked in the mud?" asked a familiar voice. "Looking for truffles, I hope?
— Leigh Bardugo
A world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there's nothing to learn,
— Yanko Tsvetkov
Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.
— Gugu Mbatha-Raw
I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.
— Rick Remender
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
— Oscar Wilde
Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
— Nathan Parsons
Do not write the conclusion of a work in your familiar study. You would not find the necessary courage there.
— Walter Benjamin
Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar
— Marshall McLuhan
Everyone is familiar with the phrase 'It's not what you know, it's who you know' and that's because it's so often true. You
— Enterprise Nation
There are familiar faces on these trains, people I see every week, going to and fro. I recognize them and they probably recognize me.
— Paula Hawkins
The familiar changes as we cling to it.
— Mason Cooley
I think the challenges should be familiar. They should have some relationship to the feelings.
— Steven Conrad
There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.
— Terry Brooks
To do something familiar and succeed is no surprise, but to try something new and fail--why, that is the start of an adventure.
— Maryrose Wood
I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.
— Michael Scott
To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.
— Derek Thompson
Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
— Sam Harris
If I saw something in my viewfinder that looked familiar to me, I would do something to shake it up.
— Garry Winogrand
You familiar with prison rules, Ali-gator?Stupid nicknames. They were the equivalent of verbal fungus. You couldn't ever get rid of them. — Gena Showalter
What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.
— Edie Campbell
Before I started Coffee of Grace, I assumed all coffee came from Latin America or Indonesia. I wasn't familiar with African coffee.
— Grace Hightower
Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.
— Liane Moriarty
Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.
— Kate Milford
Hegel used to say that the familiar, precisely because it is familiar, remains unknown. That's why we don't know so much about stupidity.
— Carl William Brown
The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.
— Lord Chesterfield
It's about finding meaning through light. I'm always interested in tensions. A primary one is the collision between the familiar and the strange.
— Gregory Crewdson
They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last
— J.K. Rowling
Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I have often remarked- I suppose everybody has- that one's going away from a familiar place, would seem to be the signal for a change in it.
— Charles Dickens
familiar with most
— C.M. Sutter
they find it all but impossible to believe in the unfamiliar while the familiar is before their eyes.
— C.S. Lewis
Stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited
— Louise Penny
I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can't pinpoint it.'
— Lindsey McKeon
You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path.
— Sylvia Plath
My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice.
— Jennifer Hudson
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.
— Blake Shelton
I'm not familiar with the metric system.
— Patton Oswalt
Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.
— Jeanette Winterson
We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.
— Publilius Syrus
My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.
— J.M.G. Le Clezio
All that happens is as usual and familiar as the rose in spring and the crop in summer.
— Marcus Aurelius
Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
— David Nicholls
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
— Scott McCloud
If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
— Alice Meynell
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of his neck, and never let go.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
Some of the old laws of Israel are clearly savage taboos of a familiar type thinly disguised as commands of the Deity.
— James G. Frazer
...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood.
— Jennifer Egan
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
— Jean De La Bruyere
If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.
— Marc Newson
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
— William Winwood Reade
There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We live with a few familiar ideas. Two or three. We polish and transform them according to the societies and the men we happen to meet.
— Albert Camus
Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair ... Wait a damn minute.
— Ilona Andrews
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
— Andy Goldsworthy
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
— John Locke
As if familiar paths traced in summer skies could lead as easily to prison as to the sleep of the innocent.
— Albert Camus
