#familia

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down. ↗

— James Wolcott

#chicken #direction #down #easy #edited

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#fairly #familiar #familiar territory #getting #hood

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#again #am #boring #everything #familiar

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

I am determined to hold on as long as possible, but if I should disappear, I should not have had the time to familiarize my successors with the necessary information. ↗

— Jean Moulin

#determined #disappear #familiarize #had #hold

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness. ↗

— Alex North

#combination #familiarity #hear #i #lack

At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#familiar #first #form #had #publisher

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#book #comfortable #days #did #different

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly. ↗

— Rihanna

#bored #doing #familiar #get #going

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