#familia

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century. ↗

— Satyajit Ray

#century #familiar #first-hand #i #i write

We have such a long, familiar history with Peter Falk. The minute his mug is on that screen people smile. ↗

— Paul Reiser

#familiar #his #history #long #minute

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it. ↗

— Sally Ride

#anytime #done #familiar #go #great

But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now. ↗

— Nicolas Roeg

#everything #familiar #marketing #now #reaching

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#away #becomes #been #death #deeper

My son is very into music and really familiar with my voice. ↗

— Jennifer Hudson

#into #music #really #son #very

When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were relied upon for heavenly teaching, and familiar images, chosen from the known, were made to mirror the unknown spiritual truth. ↗

— William H. Hunt

#complete #enough #familiar #heavenly #images

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

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word. ↗

— Charles D. Broad

#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean