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[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. — Bharati Mukherjee

Be neither too remote nor too familiar. — Prince Charles

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

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. — Rickie Lee Jones

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. — Samuel Johnson

I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too. — Lana Del Rey

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

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

I heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar. — Colette

Too many films today feel formulaic and familiar. I prefer it when the familiar is made to feel strange. — Nicolas Roeg

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

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

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

I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with. — Rick Remender

Death you are too familiar — Beth Havens

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

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

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

...our familiar features rinsed in weird adulthood. — Jennifer Egan

He shrugged, facing the fire. But we are all creatures of habit. It is far too easy to stay in the familiar ruts we dig for ourselves. — Patrick Rothfuss

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

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

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar. — Mason Cooley

I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral. — Brock Clarke

All objects lose by too familiar a view. — John Dryden

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one. — Ethan A. Hitchcock

If one has one cow, it is always better not to be too familiar with those who have seven. — Phyllis Bottome

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined. — Abraham Lincoln

I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up. — Christopher Nolan

It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it," Tsukiko says. "It is too familiar. Too comfortable. — Erin Morgenstern

Don't be too formal with familiar friends, lest you become an object of hate — Michael Bassey Johnson

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with. — Martin Freeman

Business friendly is the middle ground between being too cold and uncaring and the other extreme of being too familiar — Garrison Wynn

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange. — Rene Magritte

I wandered familiar streets feeling lost in the darkness, too scared of the stuff inside my head to be afraid of anything outside it.' - ppg 5 — Annabel Pitcher

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

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

Familiar acts are beautiful through love. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

familiar with most — C.M. Sutter

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

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

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

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

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

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

There will be no fear of your becoming lethargic if you are continually familiar with internal realities. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. — Sheldon B. Kopp

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