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#familia

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #familia




The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.


Ernest Renan


#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.


Robert M. Pirsig


#art

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.


Vera Nazarian


#distant #familiar #foreign #home #hospitality

Cats are very independent animals. They're very sexy, if you want. Dogs are different. They're familiar. They're obedient. You call a cat, you go, 'Cat, come here.' He doesn't come to you unless you have something in your hand that he thinks might be food. They're very free animals, and I like that.


Antonio Banderas


#cat #cats #come #different #dogs

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.


Jacques Barzun


#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.


William Bernbach


#apathy #breeds #communications #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.


Barbara Bush


#familiar territory #frees #giving #mind #needs

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.


Jean Piaget


#avoided #becomes #between #constituting #differentiated

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






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