#familia

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#among #familiar #feel #grow #learn

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Chaka Khan

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #philosophy

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#also #beauty #birth #gives #opposite

After much diligent research, aided by other women, I gradually came to understand that beneath the familiar Goddesses of the patriarchy, there is a much more ancient Goddess. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#aided #ancient #beneath #came #diligent

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

— Billy Corgan

#doing #familiar #familiar things #get #i

The first couple of pictures I wrote and directed were dreadful, because I was dealing in worlds that were not familiar to me, and writing about fantasy. They were just not anything I was really connected to. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#anything #because #connected #couple #dealing

I don't think the process was successful and should be inspected closer. I am not afraid to say I am not familiar with the entire process, so before commenting further I would have to study the process more in depth. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#am #before #closer #commenting #depth

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

— Martin Freeman

#comedy #disappointment #familiar #far-fetched #nothing

Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you. ↗

— James Galway

#been #day #familiar #get #granted

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom. ↗

— James Galway

#boredom #breeds #familiar #routine #running