Familiar quotes

How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
-- Alan Alda

#Track #Signals #Familiar

Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.
-- Bobby Jones

#Games #Different #Familiar

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
-- Charles Churchill

#Speak #Cowardice #Familiar

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Facts #Familiar #Hardest

It's good to know you're working for someone you're familiar with, who's a friend and he has your back and you have his back also.
-- Chili Davis

#Familiar

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
-- Claude McKay

#Way #Hungry #Familiar

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
-- Duncan Sheik

#Second Chance #Records #Familiar

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do
-- Ednita Nazario

#Play #Broadway #Familiar

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
-- Edward Norton

#Scripts #Genre #Familiar

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.
-- Edwin Percy Whipple

#Mouths #Authorship #Familiar

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.
-- Ehud Barak

#Israel #Familiar

A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
-- Eli Pariser

#World #Familiar

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.
-- Eric Bana

#Scratches #Accents #Familiar

That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Summer #Conviction #Familiar

Let us be eager to leave what is familiar for what is true.
-- Francis Chan

#Familiar

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

#Lenses #Familiar #Needed

He will essentially follow the language of the spectacle, for it is the only one he is familiar with.
-- Guy Debord

#Language #Familiar

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
-- Henry James

#Past #Strange #Familiar

No season now for calm, familiar talk.
-- Homer

#Calm #Familiar

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
-- Jane Hirshfield

#Laziness #Habit #Familiar

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .
-- Jennifer Haigh

#Voice #Familiar #Wanted

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

#Views #Familiar

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
-- John Knox

#Prayer #Talking #Familiar

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Doe #Familiar

The Western genre is certainly something with which I'm familiar.
-- Keith Carradine

#Genre #Familiar #Western

There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.
-- Kenny Werner

#Easy #Difficult #Familiar

The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.
-- Kim Edwards

#Moon #Familiar

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

#Anxiety #Calm #Familiar

Everything I am familiar with is gone.
-- Marie Lu

#Gone #Familiar

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Actresses #Poverty #Familiar

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

#Disappointment #Comedy #Familiar

I don't put myself out there, so people aren't necessarily familiar with me or my face.
-- Mary-Louise Parker

#People #Faces #Familiar

Seems like Ive been here before. Seems so familiar. Seems like Im slipping into a dream within a dream.
-- Maynard James Keenan

#Dream #Slipping #Familiar

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!
-- Michael Buckley

#Play #Facts #Familiar

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.
-- Mieczyslaw Jastrun

#Art #Progress #Familiar

I'm not familiar precisely with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.
-- Mitt Romney

#Election #Said #Familiar

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.
-- Navid Negahban

#Thinking #Familiar #Intrigued

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Marketing #Reaching #Familiar

In marketing, the familiar is everything.
-- Nicolas Roeg

#Marketing #Familiar

At the time I wasn't really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that 'cause they regular people just like everybody else.
-- Obie Trice

#People #Causes #Familiar

Be neither too remote nor too familiar.
-- Prince Charles

#Familiar

Commonsense lets us down, because commonsense evolved in a world where nothing moves very fast, and nothing is very small or very large; the mundane world of the familiar.
-- Richard Dawkins

#Moving #World #Familiar

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

#Play #Credibility #Familiar

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.
-- Robert Rauschenberg

#Painting #Familiar

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.
-- Rod Milburn

#Track #Goes On #Familiar

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.
-- Saint Francis de Sales

#Angel #Spirit #Familiar

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.
-- Satoshi Kanazawa

#Ends #Existence #Familiar

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
-- Scott McCloud

#Territory #Explaining #Familiar

Now 'Boondock II,' people are gonna see it because they liked the first one. There won't be very many people who go see it who aren't familiar with the first one.
-- Sean Patrick Flanery

#People #Firsts #Familiar

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.
-- Suzanne Collins

#Cells #Scream #Familiar

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
-- T. S. Eliot

#Car #Familiar #Motor

I disliked the unfamiliar happiness more than the familiar sadness
-- Tablo

#Sadness #Familiar

Outside Ted (Washington) and Bobby (Hamilton), nobody was familiar with (the 3-4),
-- Warren Sapp

#Hamilton #Familiar

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Writing #Two #Familiar

Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
-- William Shakespeare

#Wine #Used #Familiar

Things are changing at such a rate that you really can't get too familiar with anything that you own in relation to what sort of functionality it has in your life.
-- Alan Palomo

#Relation #Rate #Familiar

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
-- David Twohy

#Trying #Fiction #Familiar

When I'm working, I get super lazy and I just do something that I'm familiar with.
-- Devon Windsor

#Lazy #Familiar

I was always interested in finding ways of meeting the familiar very differently, specifically the feminine familiar.
-- Francesca DiMattio

#Way #Feminine #Familiar

The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.
-- Sadakat Kadri

#Islamic #Violent #Familiar

Unless you count the political backdrop, which in any case is a familiar one to many international readers, I don't think there's anything that I would call essentially Brazilian in João Gilberto Noll work. In that regard, it translates very well to a cosmopolitan audience.
-- Adam Morris

#Thinking #Political #Familiar

The food to me is just a hook, it's a button, it happens to be the social construct and the cultural totem that I'm most familiar with. So of course I built the show around food because it's where I'm familiar.
-- Andrew Zimmern

#Hook #Familiar

Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
-- Philip Toshio Sudo

#Time #Moments #Familiar

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.
-- Robert Heinecken

#Play #Familiar #Unfamiliar