#familia

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#america #anyone #asian #boss #certain

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality. ↗

— Kathleen Quinlan

#character #familiar #folks #i #industry

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up. ↗

— Herb Ritts

#familiar #hold #language #picture #regardless

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the familiar fact that civilization is a partial, incomplete, and, to a great extent, superficial modification of barbarism. ↗

— Elihu Root

#begin #causes #civilization #deal #extent

Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the other way around, as was done in most science fiction. That was the first time I can recall that it had ever been done. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#around #been #done #ever #familiar

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#engaging #familiar #familiar things #make #most

Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ↗

— George Sand

#familiarity #strangers

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. ↗

— William Osler

#familiar #fully #important #know #man

The familiar is by far the most beautiful. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#familiarity #intimacy #beauty