Top 1200 Familiar Places Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

In comedy you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

Sydney might not be an expert in personal relationships but puzzles were familiar territory.

When you stand in a traditional audience, you have a wall of amplified sound coming at you from one direction. Everyone's familiar with that.

I don't want them to move their plants. I want them to stay in Michigan. I want them to stay in all of the places where they are, or expanding to other places. But I want it to be in the United States. I don't want them to go to Mexico.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Latin Americans are all too familiar with the boom and bust cycles associated with economic populism.

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

I was familiar with the Heat and their culture because I played with Dexter Pittman and he was here early in his career.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with.

I'm the strongest advocate you can imagine for doing things honestly and paying your taxes. Take advantage of every tax break you're legally entitled to. But I follow the letter of the law, because the consequences are severe if you're caught. I was a perpetrator at one time and suffered severe consequences. It is difficult in some places, but if you live in places like California, move somewhere else to save some money.

Military families become familiar with trying to contort their lives around deployments and separations.

In comedy, you work with people so often that they just become familiar faces - it's like a fraternity.

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

It seemed [there are] musical nodes on the planet where cultures meet and mix, sometimes as a result of unfortunate circumstances, like slavery or something else, in places like New Orleans and Havana and Brazil. And those are places where the European culture and indigenous culture and African culture all met and lived together, and some new kind of culture and especially music came out of that.

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

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

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.

In any case, suffice it to say I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these places, like a bear getting ready for hibernation. I'd close my eyes, and streets would materialize, rows of houses take shape. I could hear people's voices, feel the gentle, steady rhythm of their lives, those people so distant, whom I'd probably never know.

If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

Depression makes you seek lonely places, and that is what I started doing during the second semester of my first year in college. The black creek, the woods, the empty fields, the old cemetery-anywhere away from people, away from their critical eyes. I would seek out these places, choosing routes and times that would mean I could avoid as many people as possible.

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

My two sons speak Hebrew, and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.

Walt put everything he knew about communication with images into the park, so it was very familiar.

Before 'Insecure,' I was a wedding emcee - a host for weddings. That's a world that a lot of people are not familiar with.

I am not familiar with Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam and tend to feel they are foreign languages to me.

Peeta and I had adjoining cells in the capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

How different a loved and familiar spot appears, when viewed with the eye of probable guests.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known.

For myself and Tyler Bate to go out there and show what we can do in front of an audience that probably isn't that familiar with what we do, I'm grateful.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

I don't like to get involved in things that I am not familiar with. I'm kind of a hands-on type of person.

You feel the communion of the collective consciousness in that moment when you're on stage doing something and the audience is absolutely with you. And the audience becomes a collective entity as well. They come in from separate places and socio-economic backgrounds, and places across the world and days that they've had, and then they come together and they become one collective thing, and experience something in a collective way.

All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.

As a politician, I spent a lot of time in Washington and New York, cities that are familiar to Europeans.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

It's human to want to compare things we know to lay on something we are familiar with. It gives comfort.

Preaching is the most original thing I've ever done. There's nothing familiar about it. You have to be brave.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.