Familiar Quotes

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

I need to get more comfortable, familiar out of the stretch. Work on controlling the running game a little bit better.

To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.

Start with familiar fairy tales or Bible stories or old folk tales or ancient myths and legends. You can tell them straight, or you can add your own twists. If it's a story kids already know, they'll try to correct you if you stray, but that's part of the fun. You can make each story your own.

I wasn't familiar with him, and I thought the scene was too brutal for the song. So what do I know?

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.

I definitely had to go after it. Fernando wasn't too familiar with any British actresses work, so I was working here in LA and I read the script. I knew that he was directing it and I had a day off in my shooting schedule. I got on a plane - Fernando was in London and he was seeing British actresses and I was, 'Oh my God, I've got to meet him?' I managed to get to London and back in 24 hours? I had an hour with him? I think I went in there a bit like a hurricane of passion? I was the first person that he met, but then he wanted to meet everybody, so he met a bunch of people and I was back in LA dying. And so then I wrote him a very impassioned letter and then finally I got the role?

He didn't look as familiar with his surroundings. But he did look very comfortable. He didn't seem to think that anyone would walk in and catch him. He never seemed to be concerned with the video cameras at all.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

They are different programs, but they are still dealing with preschool youngsters, ... They are familiar with nap times, snack times and programs that you offer 3- and 4-year-olds.

If obesity is a disease, it is the only one that I am familiar with that you can cure by taking long walks and keeping your mouth shut.

Is this familiar or similar to choking game incidents? Yes. But we just don't know. We will look at everything to try to figure it out.

Like migratory birds, our Jewish homing device prompts us to flock together. It feels so good to see familiar faces, embrace one another.

After nine bank robberies ... it looks familiar after a while.

A lot of kids today don't have the familiar connection with the Holocaust. A lot of them don't have that firsthand account, which is difficult, because a lot of kids are not as engaged in the Holocaust.

The gap between rapid growth and subdued employment is a familiar story reflecting a possible 'once in a lifetime' surge in productivity.

These jumping carp you speak of sound strangely familiar to a species found in Fontana Lake in western North Carolina. They reach lengths of 3 feet and it is rumored much longer and I have caught several that weighed 15_20 pounds.

Custodial parents are very familiar with when their exes are sending in their checks to the state and they know that three days later their checks are supposed to be in the bank. If the checks were sent to the state on those three days after the fire, they have been processed and they will be posted to bank accounts by Tuesday at the latest, if they haven't been already.

The hope is that the president -- or more likely someone on his staff who is more familiar with these issues will prevail upon him to select someone of the highest caliber.

It is at once both foreign and familiar, ... It is a delicious work; very sensual. You can feel the weather and the smells and the food.

Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows over-familiar. It plays like a favorite musical album; the more I know it, the more I like it.

We'll have a number of people who are familiar with aging cattle by their dentition look at this animal and see if they concur with the original veterinarian.

There's a contradiction in knowledge of the PATRIOT Act, Americans think they're familiar with it, but when you actually ask them about the specifics, it's clear that most of the public doesn't understand what the PATRIOT Act actually does.

We've been studying this play for a while now, so we feel like we are pretty familiar with it. It should be a lot of fun.