Familiar Quotes - Page 36

• You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Sweet, Voice, Expectations

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• That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Desire, Needs

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler”, p.44

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• At the end of this lifetime, you will leave this world. Your awareness field will stay together in a certain sense and then it will seek to return to things that are familiar. You will reincarnate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Together, World, Fields

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• I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

  Greg Bryk

  Violence, Language, Grew Up

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• I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wall, Other Cultures, Land

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• An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted. When a man becomes familiar with his goddess she quickly sinks into a woman.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Idols, May

  Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers, Joseph Addison (1806). “The Spectator”, p.423

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• SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Eggs, Giving, Sacred

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.328, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

  Charles Lamb

  Taken, Departed, Gone

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1857). “The Works of Charles Lamb: Complete in One Volume. With a Sketch of His Life, by Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, D.C.L.”, p.608

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• Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.

  Oscar Wilde

  Finishing, Royal, Artistic

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• The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The observation of the unconscious, so far as it can be observed, should reveal things of which we have previously been unconscious, not the familiar things of which we have been conscious plus imagination.

  Wallace Stevens

  Play, Imagination, Essentials

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.259, Vintage

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• No season now for calm, familiar talk.

  Homer

  Calm, Seasons

  Homer (1791). “The Iliad: of Homer. Translated by Mr. Pope. ...”, p.109

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• Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

  Edgar Degas

  Expression, People, Giving

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

  Joseph Joubert

  Way, Familiarity

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.21

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

  Bobby Jones

  Games, Different

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• The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Laughter, Children, Adults

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• It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Creativity, Space, Imagination

  Nathaniel Branden (2008). “The Psychology of Romantic Love: Romantic Love in an Anti-Romantic Age”, p.150, Penguin

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• Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.

  Carl Clinton Van Doren

  Historical, Details, Teach

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• Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten by most people; or else they are guarded in some secret place of memory because they were too much like visitations by the gods to be mixed with everyday thinking.

  Marion Milner

  Memories, Thinking, Secret Places

  Marion Milner (2005). “The Suppressed Madness of Sane Men: Forty-Four Years of Exploring Psychoanalysis”, p.66, Routledge

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• To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

  Philip Guston

  Painting, Argument, Begin Again

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• I'm familiar to people. They feel comfortable with me. I started in live television. I perform live all the time. I sing with the piano. I sing with a symphony. I can sit and ask questions. I can listen. I'm very comfortable in most situations.

  Florence Henderson

  Symphony, Piano, People

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• The picture must be... a revelation, an unexpected and unprecedented resolution of an eternally familiar need.

  Mark Rothko

  Needs, Unexpected, Revelations

  Mark Rothko (1997). “Mark Rothko”, Stewart Tabori & Chang

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• Animals of every kind live on the Other Side, .. you are not crazy if you feel the spirit of your cat rubbing against your legs, hear the sound of your dog's toenails clicking on the wood floor, or hear the familiar song your bird used to sing. Our pets do come back to visit us.

  Sylvia Browne

  Dog, Song, Crazy

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• Art doesn't want to be familiar. It wants to astonish us. Or, in some cases, to enrage us. It wants to move us. To touch us. Not accommodate us, make us comfortable.

  Jamake Highwater

  Art, Moving, Want

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• A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Mistake, Eye, Drawing

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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