Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.
My pleasure in reading is not necessarily the witnessing of something new, but of something familiar which I haven't seen described.
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.
Valyrian is oddly easier than Dothraki. It's got a more lyrical flow to it that feels more familiar to the way I speak. That makes it slightly easier.
I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.
There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.
I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.
It was real Cheyenne. I would get the translations the night before, but it was very difficult because it was not like any other language you would be familiar with.
You can get things out of acting with someone a second time around that you don't necessarily get the first time because you're more familiar, more comfortable.
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
A familiar pang of dread wrapped its icy hand around my heart." Lorelei Preston-The Wild Hunt
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1) sex sells; 2) if it bleeds it leads.
A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
Dr. Breed keeps telling me the main thing with Dr. Hoenikker was truth.” “You don’t seem to agree.” “I don’t know whether I agree or not. I just have trouble understanding how truth, all by itself, could be enough for a person.
It becomes easy," Finbar said. "It's in the training; the ability to see your enemy as something other than a real man. He is a lesser breed, defined by his beliefs - you learn to do with him what you will, and bend him to your purpose.
We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.
