Familiar Quotes

• We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  

  Carson McCullers
  • Travel
  • Strange
  • Nostalgia

• Some memorizers arbitrarily associate each playing card with a familiar person or object, so that the king of clubs is represented by, say, Tony Danza. The grand masters associate each card with a person, an action, or an object so that every group of three cards can be converted into a sentence.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Action
  • Kings
  • Groups

• We should not be too familiar with the lower orders or with women.

  

  Confucius
  • Women
  • Familiar
  • Orders

• Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Past
  • Growing
  • Risk

• When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

  

  Satyajit Ray
  • People
  • Writing
  • Situation

• Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command.

  

  George Washington
  • Support
  • Easy
  • Condescending

• Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

  

  Wynn Bullock
  • Things
  • Waiting
  • Photography

• A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way

  

  Christian Keiber
  • Movie
  • Story
  • Unfamiliar

• Maybe when things start to change, you want to hold on to something familiar.

  

  Beverly Donofrio
  • Change
  • Hold
  • Familiar

• When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a way of opening up the part of the brain that makes poems. If I'm successful in this part of the process I'm often not. If my mind gets too lazy it will linger in familiar boring territory, it's like my mind can stroke the physical world.

  

  Dawn Lundy Martin
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

  

  Karen Scalf Linamen
  • Hearing
  • Bathroom
  • Peeves

• Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And that's the excitement of it.

  

  Susanne Bier
  • Creative
  • Excitement
  • Familiar

• Collage has been one of the most relevant forms of art making. It's resonant because it is made of the stuff that we see every day. It's familiar. It reflects our reality.

  

  Elliott Hundley
  • Reality
  • Relevant
  • Collage

• I put in the sounds of instruments such as the guitar and piano, which everybody hears often, and tried to go with melodies that would sound familiar. Rather than trying to do music that I want to do, I focused on doing music that I want my fans to hear.

  

  Lee Seung-hyun Big Bang
  • Trying
  • Fans
  • Focused

• The fact that the regions of nature actually covered by known laws are few and fragmentary is concealed by the natural tendency to crowd our experience into those particular regions and to leave the others to themselves. We seek out those parts that are known and familiar and avoid those that are unknown and unfamiliar. This is simply what is called 'Applied Science.'

  

  Arthur David Ritchie
  • Known
  • Parts
  • Applied Science

• In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

  

  David L. Bazelon
  • Protection
  • Privacy
  • Intimate

• One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

  

  Joshua Foer
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Eye

• In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.

  

  Michael Behe
  • World
  • Eye
  • Sophisticated

• I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Familiar
  • Allowed
  • Staff

• With software products, it is usual to find that the software has major `bugs' and does not work reliably for some users... The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers. Those of us who are software professionals know better; the most competent programmers in the world cannot avoid such problems.

  

  David Parnas
  • World
  • Problem
  • Incidents

• The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The feud we kept with space comes to an end.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Long
  • Distance
  • Fields

• I'm sorry," I heard him say again. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a sudden blur of movement as he slid out of his seat, left some bills for the breakfast he wouldn't eat, and walked away. And as he did, I thought again of those mornings in the hallway at school, way back in ninth grade. Everything had started in such sharp detail, each aspect pronounced and clear. Obviously, endings were different. Harder to see, full of shapes that could be one thing or another, with all the things that you were once so sure of suddenly not familiar, if they were even recognizable at all.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Different
  • School
  • Morning

• To explore the unknown and the familiar, distant and near and to record in detail with the eyes of a child, any beauty, (of the flesh or otherwise) horror, irony, traces of utopia or Hell. Select your team with care, but when in doubt, take on some new crew and give them a chance. But avoid at all costs fluctuations of sincerity with your best people.

  

  Dan Eldon
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Explore

• 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
  • Boondocks

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