Familiar Quotes

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

Words lit low on kerosene pages, familiar comforts like asphyxiation.

And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason.

Anyone who claims to be familiar with it all is a confessing liar.’ I believe that all physicists would subscribe to the same sentiments regarding their own professional literature. I do at any rate.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

People want to know about the details of politicians, what they like doing in their spare time, about their families. I think that’s human.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.