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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

It wasn't that pain grew tolerable or the confusion went away. Instead, it simply became familiar. It became a part of you. — Hugh Howey

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

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks. — Lauren Myracle

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

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

Are you fully convinced that what is familiar to you is really the better way? — Jose Antonio Bowen

We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon. — Alex Campbell

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

Magic realism - somebody used that phrase the other day that is familiar with South American literature. That rang a bell. It resonates with me. — Sam Neill

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

Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul. — Truth Devour

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

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that. — David Naughton

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

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar
and so very sad: What is this you have done? — Tosca Lee

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

It is only with the passions of others that we are ever really familiar, and what we come to discover about our own can only be learned from them. — Marcel Proust

My dad used to say that when I was born I looked so totally familiar — Gayle Forman

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

It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well put is half-solved. — John Dewey

Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen. — Lee Siegel

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Silas straightened in his seat, clearly uneasy. "This is so bad for my asthma," he said, the familiar phrase coming from him startling her. — Kim Harrison

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar. — Gretchen Rubin

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

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. — Louis Nizer

If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door. — Blake Shelton

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home. — Brittany Bowe

I'm not familiar with the metric system. — Patton Oswalt

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history. — Robert Dallek

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

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. — Barbara Bush

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

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with. — Amy Bloom

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

You must see for yourselves that it will be difficult to follow Peter Pan's adventures unless you are familiar with the Kensington Gardens. — J.M. Barrie

We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women, — Confucius

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

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm. — Lucy Freeman

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

You have Charcy. I have Fortaine. He stared at the words, written in familiar, unmistakable handwriting. I'll receive you at my fort. * — C.S. Pacat

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. — Eugene Ionesco

Baritone, cultivated, rolling-out-smooth voice familiar to Reiss. 'This is Doktor Goebbels. — Philip K. Dick