Quotes of: Familiar-territory Keyword

Her fragility makes her uncomfortable, but it has a familiarity, too, like the biting cold of winter that you only half forget during other seasons.

All the Summer Girls

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

The Historian

She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast and in the sound of that same heartbeat remembered from the womb.

Intensity

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

Killosophy

A familiar name on its own, however, does not carry its bearer far unless the talent is there, and the will to work.

The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories

She looks in the mirror seems vaguely familiar like steam on the glass shame covers her past the fog slithers down as evil surrounds.

Snow White Darkness

I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill,” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel,” which would imply respect.

The Musubi Murder

Whoever has the better stuff wins. Sound familiar, American lackeys of late-stage capitalism?

The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death

The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks.

Nine Lives

When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced familiarity of the accumulated memory of all our kisses.

Linger

Cities have the capability to at any moment shift out of the familiar, even if you've lived in one all your life.

Shadowhunters and Downworlders: A Mortal Instruments Reader

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

The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it.

Odd Thomas

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

Odd Thomas

When you're thinking, please remember this: excessive pride is a familiar sin, but a man may just as easily frustrate the will of God through excessive humility.

The Pillars of the Earth

Innovative solutions to new challenges seldom come from familiar places

Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family.

Upon Destiny's Song

It was freaky how once you realized you loved someone, and they felt the same way about you, they could look different, yet the same; how they felt familiar, but not.

What a Boy Wants

The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hope...

D. J. MacHale

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

Twyla Tharp

We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country -- its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps.

The Art of War