Familiar Quotes - Page 36

• On a lazy Saturday morning when you're lying in bed, drifting in and out of sleep, there is a space where fantasy and reality become one. Are you awake, or are you dreaming? You see people and things; some are familiar; some are strange. You talk, you feel, but you move without walking; you fly without wings. Your mind and your body exist, but on separate planes. Time stands still. For me, this is the feeling I have when ideas come.

  Lynn Johnston

  Dream, Morning, Lying

  Lynn Johnston (1994). “It's the Thought That Counts:: A For Better Or For Worse Fifteenth Anniversary Collection”, p.6, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• All objects lose by too familiar a view.

  John Dryden

  Views, Literature, Objects

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.2336, Delphi Classics

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• Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists

  Jurgen Habermas

  Fighting, Political, Territory

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• There’s no legislation with regards to abortion that I’m familiar with that would become part of my agenda.

  Mitt Romney

  Abortion, Agendas, Legislation

  "Mitt Romney Abortion Stance Changes, As Candidate Says He Won’t Push To Restrict Access" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 9, 2012.

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• 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

  Aerospace, Painting

  "How to Look at a Rauschenberg" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. August 30, 2017.

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• To anyone who has served in Washington, there is something oddly familiar about [having your portrait painted]. First, you're painted into a corner, then you're hung out to dry and, finally, you're framed.

  Warren Christopher

  Portraits, Dry, Firsts

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• I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive individual enjoying an especially receptive moment. While that may be the case on rare occasions, the reality is usually far more prosaic. Staring at a blank piece of paper, I can't think of anything original. I feel utterly uninspired and unreceptive. It's the familiar malaise of 'artist's block' and in such circumstances there is only one thing to do: just start drawing.

  Shaun Tan

  Block, Inspiration, Thinking

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• My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

  Sara Zarr

  Book, Character, Growth

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• Im still getting more familiar with the plays and different things, but I think that will come along with getting more experience and getting to know the guys better.

  Chris Paul

  Thinking, Play, Guy

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• Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Change, Work, People

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.314

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• It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

  James Surowiecki

  Fear, Greed, Financial

  James Surowiecki (2005). “The Wisdom of Crowds”, p.241, Anchor

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• People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not.

  Neil Postman

  Inspirational, People, Problem

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.96, Vintage

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• Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

  Joseph Addison

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1765). “Rosamond. Cato. The drummer, or The haunted house. The late trial and conviction of Count Tariff. The Whig-Examiner. The lover”, p.80

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• The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

  H. L. Mencken

  Simple, Argument, Problem

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• 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, Adjustment

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• If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step...the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"

  Dale Dauten

  Motivational, Careers, Track

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• The Bible differs from all other books in that it never wears out. Other books are read and laid aside, but the Bible is a constant companion. No matter how often we read it or how familiar we become with it, some new truth is likely to spring out at us from its pages whenever we open it, or some old truth will impress us as it never did before. Every Christian can give illustrations of this.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Christian, Spring, Book

  William Jennings Bryan (1922). “In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan”

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• There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

  Carl Sagan

  Thinking, Years, Mars

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• From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

  E. B. White

  Morning, Food, Heart

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• We tolerate without rebuke the vices with which we have grown familiar.

  Publilius Syrus

  Vices, Virtue, Tolerate

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• Relativity was a highly technical new theory that gave new meanings to familiar concepts and even to the nature of the theory itself. The general public looked upon relativity as indicative of the seemingly incomprehensible modern era, educated scientists despaired of ever understanding what Einstein had done, and political ideologues used the new theory to exploit public fears and anxieties-all of which opened a rift between science and the broader culture that continues to expand today.

  David C. Cassidy

  Science, Anxiety, Political

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• I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we've attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can't be happy now, we'll likely not be happy when.

  Philip Gulley

  Gratitude, Bridges, Appreciate

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• Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.

  Judith Thurman

  Travel, Adventure, Dreamer

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• I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted in old literati paintings. My innermost feeling which was awakened by the same mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums has been totally and utterly changed. Moreover, like an apparition, it hides deep down in my vessels. The very trees and rocks have become the storage of memories and emotions from various eras. Forced by the rapid change of time and perspective, I cannot help but feel urged to face up to these things once again.

  Zhang Xiaogang

  Memories, Rocks, Perspective

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• Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.

  Karin Lowachee

  Rain, Character, Technology

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