Familiar Quotes - Page 4

Art cannot progress by sticking to what is already familiar.

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

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

Anxiety was comfortable to me because it was familiar. If none existed, unconsciously I stirred it up to destroy the unfamiliarity of calm.

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

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Down in the deep, up in the sky , I see them always, far or nigh, And I shall see them till I die The old familiar faces.

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

We pardon familiar vices.

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

The one fatwa that everyone here is probably familiar with is the Salman Rushdie fatwa, but a fatwa doesn't have to be a violent thing at all. A fatwa is simply a ruling on Islamic law; there can be fatwas on clothing.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

A good hurdler has to be completely familiar with everything that goes on so if something happens he can automatically make an adjustment.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Familiarity can blind too.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar.

I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.