Quotes of: Familiar-territory Keyword

Nameless: Halt! Sky: What can a minor official do? Nameless: This is my territory. Sky: And? Nameless: You are on the kings most wanted list; I am here to place you under arrest! [lifts sword ready to fight]

Hero

Dick Jones: Every policeman knows when he joins the force that there are certain inherent risks that come with the territory. Ask any cop, he'll tell ya, "If you can't stand the heat, you better stay out of the kitchen."

RoboCop

Every state has an undoubted right to determine the status, or domestic and social condition, of the persons domiciled within its territory except insofar as the powers of the states in this respect are restrained, or duties and obligations imposed u...

Roger B. Taney

No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designe...

Joe Rogan

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

Amos Oz

Pakistan has assured that it would not allow its territory to be used against India for any acts of terror. India must also reciprocate and address our concerns which are very genuine. Dialogue is the only way forward. Absence of dialogue leads to te...

Asif Ali Zardari

I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scra...

Lee Bermejo

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, a...

R. A. Salvatore

...their hearts had still not been hardened with the inevitable cynicism that familiarity and experience breed. 

Concrete Underground

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Familiar Letters

Fire looked into his quiet eyes, touched his dear familiar face and considered the question.

Fire

This is a generation of men accustomed to warfare, inured to danger and familiar with cruelty.

The Red Queen

There was no thunderbolt, no quickening of the heart, but there was a sense of recognition.A familiarity about his face..

The Last Summer

Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2

One Night in Tehran

Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.

Us

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

Shawn Levy

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

Sophie Marceau

I realized that I read books not because of the words used but because of the familiar feelings these words help me express.

krisangelagb

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

Martin Parr

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on ...

Jonathan Haidt

Whether we consciously realize it or not, the biodiversity with which we are most familiar, and the biodiversity with which we have most intimate historical, cultural and biological connections, is that associated with food plants.

Cary Fowler