Top 1200 Familiar Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

The familiar was usually invisible; how many people really noticed everything they saw?

The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.

For those of you familiar with me, you know I'm the last person to chase publicity or attention.

Private faces in public places Are wiser and nicer Than public faces in private places.

All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.

I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

It's also easy to fall back into what's familiar, what feels safe, what you've done before.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Clearly communicate your project: Imagine explaining it to someone not familiar with tech.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

Of the many unforeseen consequences of typography, the emergence of nationalism is, perhaps, the most familiar

I want to explore a new place each year, and it can be within India. When I was shooting for 'Mohenjo Daro', I couldn't travel out of the country for two years. But it gave me an opportunity to explore new places within India. I'm sure there are so many places to explore in India, and I would love to go there.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

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

Being from Louisiana, I'm very familiar with the heat and what it can do to you if you don't take care of your body.

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

'Jane Eyre' was one of those films that I was familiar with as a kid, and I always enjoyed the story.

My mom always plays Madonna in the car, so I was kind of familiar with what she was into in the '80s.

I needed to change the lens through which I viewed everything familiar.

A folk melody can exist uniquely but also still be somewhat familiar to you.

I'm very familiar with World of Sport, some of the characters, and great athletes.

Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.

I write about banking because it is something I'm familiar with. Also, I don't have to do much research on it.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.

People just sticking names on places, so that no one could see those places properly any more. Every time they looked at them or thought about them the the first thing they saw was a huge big sign saying 'Housing Commission' or 'private school' or 'church' or 'mosque' or 'synagogue'. They stopped looking once they saw those signs.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

But in fact as knowledge expands globally it is being lost locally. This is the paramount truth of the modern history of rural places everywhere in the world. And it is the gravest problem of land use: Modern humans typically are using places whose nature they have never known and whose history they have forgotten; thus ignorant, they almost necessarily abuse what they use.

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable.

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

For anyone who's not familiar with 'Piper's Pit,' they need to know one thing - there's absolutely no rules.

It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy.

I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.

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

All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.

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

I don't like it when people act extra-familiar and pretend that they are my best friends when they are actually not.

I saw 'Into the Woods' maybe 26 times in various incarnations. I'm very familiar with it.

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

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

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

I think if you just travel in general, it allows you to step outside of yourself and whatever you're familiar with.

I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity. The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

Most people are more comfortable with what is familiar. I’ve spent my life doing the opposite.