#liar

You're talking to someone who has been married to various people for the last 40 years of her life. Dating is not really something familiar. I've never really been a dater. ↗

— Stockard Channing

#dating #familiar #her #i #last

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#best way #big #block #books #familiar

I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive. ↗

— Barbara Deming

#choice #concept #enable #familiar #hold

I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#came #canada #close #cups #european

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#being #brought #detail #entertained #familiar

I think there's something peculiar about me that I haven't died. It doesn't make sense but I refuse to die. ↗

— Judy Garland

#die #died #haven #i #i think

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

Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

#chastity #most #peculiar #perhaps #sexual

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

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

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity