Familiar Things Quotes

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

I'm very into familiar things, popular things. I'm into things that no one seems to know about or be into. I'm trying to draw a line between those two things and make it clear... that it all makes sense to me. That it's not disparate. That it's all one thing inside me.

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

In this work are exhibited, in a very high degree, the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

If you see something that you feel is familiar it gives you an important kind of emotional connection.

The thing that scares us the most is when familiar things operate in unfamiliar ways.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)