#familiar

From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before. ↗

— Terence Stamp

#been #before #between #current #cut

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling

His witch had finally arrived. He knew it within his heart and he danced, giddy as a schoolboy on the first day of summer vacation. ↗

— Sapphire Phelan

#erotic #urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. ↗

— Asa Gray

#familiar #forms #living #manifold #matter

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#appetite #becomes #child #demand #familiar

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#atmosphere #before #consist #cosmic #cosmic rays

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#colleagues #difficult #especially #find #his

I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids whether you are familiar with 'Splash' or 'Little Mermaid' or things like that. I did remember the film but I didn't watch it going into 'Aquamarine.' ↗

— JoJo

#every #familiar #fascinated #film #girl