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When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things. -- Billy Corgan
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. -- Alfred North Whitehead
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all. -- Donald Judd
There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference. -- Christine Elise
Familiar things are a comfort to us all. -- Andy Rooney
And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with. -- Navid Negahban
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. -- Samuel Johnson
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new -- Rory Sutherland
Somehow credibility comes into play if you do things that are too familiar. -- Rickie Lee Jones
A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar. -- Louis Nizer
There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs. -- Wayne Coyne
It is good to view things as familiar or unfamiliar, rather than as difficult or easy. -- Kenny Werner
Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived. -- Wynn Bullock
Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. -- James Galway
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. -- John Locke
We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things. -- Mark Twain
Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next. -- Sheldon B. Kopp
Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing. -- Rebecca Solnit
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. -- Dolly Parton
As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time. -- Iain Glen
There's beauty all around our paths, If but our watchful eyes Can trace it 'midst familiar things, And through their lowly guise. -- Felicia Hemans
For now, I just want things all safe and familiar. My life may not be perfect, but it is what I have known. -- Ann M. Martin
With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to. -- Beck
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions. -- Jean Piaget
Sometimes we become attached to what's familiar, and sometimes we hold on to things that are safe and predictable, even if they are bad for us. -- Greg Behrendt
The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles. -- Michel de Montaigne
My tastes in what I eat at home would be very familiar to most people who cook for families. I just organize those things a little bit differently. -- Anthony Bourdain
The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. -- Eugene Ionesco
No novel is a clone of any preceding one, though with a background cast of characters and things that has grown to thousands, there are many familiar aspects. -- Piers Anthony
In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. -- Samuel Johnson
Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways. -- Rachel Naomi Remen
Im still getting more familiar with the plays and different things, but I think that will come along with getting more experience and getting to know the guys better. -- Chris Paul
Most of us prefer to walk backward into the future, a posture that may be uncomfortable but which at least allows us to keep on looking at familiar things as long as we can. -- Charles Handy

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