All objects lose by too familiar a view.
The Boss: Are you familiar with the Shmoo?
There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water...
Repetition and familiarity work. What is repeated becomes familiar, and this becomes a part of us. Our own culture understands this, but alas, not always the church. Far too many equate ritual with spiritual dryness. True, ritual and liturgy can be d...
[Quaid enters a Johnnycab to escape from killers] Johnnycab: Please state the street and number. Douglas Quaid: Drive! drive! Johnnycab: I'm not familiar with that address. Would you please repeat the destination? Douglas Quaid: Anywhere just go! Go!...
But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now.
There aren’t weird things; there are only familiar and unfamiliar things!
Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.
It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.
As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.
Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is new.
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.
Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with.
We, in Prince Edward Island, are fully familiar with this modern phenomenon.
I know Chuck Lorre personally, and am familiar with his work going back to 'Roseanne' and 'Cybil.'
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
