Familiar Things Quotes
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None of us, she thought, wants the world we know to come to an end; we do not want familiar things to be taken from us.
— Alexander McCall Smith
Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.
— Rickie Lee Jones
Familiar things are a comfort to us all.
— Andy Rooney
He liked familiar things, things that had been worn in by good people, people he could trust.
— Jan Karon
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
— Samuel Johnson
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
— Samuel Johnson
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.
— Kenny Werner
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
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.
— Wynn Bullock
Sex as rebellion against the way things should be. [Sounds familiar? It is. No story on earth more common.]
— Lauren Groff
Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us.
— Greg Behrendt
When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
— Billy Corgan
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things.
— Mark Twain
I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.
— Dolly Parton
I miss how things were familiar with him, even if it was the familiar feeling of being let down.
— Samantha Schutz
There aren't weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.
— Ann M. Martin
All the familiar things were getting different meanings.
— Jeanette Winterson
When we are sad ... it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.
— Donna Tartt
unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade.
— Virginia Woolf
New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change, Betsy decided profoundly.
— Maud Hart Lovelace
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance.
— John Locke
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
— Jean De La Bruyere
The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.
— Philip Larkin
We have to give up so many things when the people we love die. So we hang on to other familiar things.
— Corey Ann Haydu
There's beauty all around our paths,If but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things,
And through their lowly guise. — Felicia Hemans
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
— Michel De Montaigne
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.
— Rebecca Solnit
Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.
— Rudolf Arnheim
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.
— James Galway
It is in the nature of things to want to believe that what's familiar and comfortable will last forever.
— Terry Brooks
We know that diversity can sometimes be more uncomfortable because things are less familiar - but it gets the best results.
— Megan Smith
I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
— Navid Negahban
