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

A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar
View quotes by Louis Nizer

How wondrous familiar is a fool!
View quotes by Herman Melville

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey
View quotes by Cynthia Ozick

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

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer

The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
View quotes by Clive Barnes

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
View quotes by Lin Yutang

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy... Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. (Entertaining Mr Sloane)
View quotes by Joe Orton

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen (Familiar Letters)
View quotes by James Howell

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.
View quotes by Francis X Clines

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.
View quotes by Andy Goldsworthy

There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes
Can trace it 'midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise
View quotes by Felicia Hemans

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it
View quotes by Max Planck

Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
View quotes by Joseph Addison

All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
View quotes by Margaret Mead

Genuine ignorance is profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas.
View quotes by John Dewey

People tell me not to do a soap, but it was a great learning experience because I became familiar with the technical aspects of the business. Besides, look who came out of soaps - Julianne Moore, Demi Moore, Tommy Lee Jones, Parker Posey, Kathleen Turner. All amazing people.
View quotes by Sarah Michelle Gellar



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