Familiar Quotes (365 quotes)

Picture of quotation author Mark Zupan
„People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.“
― Mark Zupan ―
Picture of quotation author Cecily von Ziegesar
„I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.“
Picture of quotation author Catherine Zeta-Jones
„To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'“
Picture of quotation author Sara Zarr
„We write in ways that, we generally hope, reflect real life, or at least look familiar to humans. And in life, recurring themes are a recurring theme. We never quite conquer a pet vice or a relationship pattern or a communication habit. We're haunted by our particular demons.“
― Sara Zarr ―
Picture of quotation author Sara Zarr
„My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.“
― Sara Zarr ―
Picture of quotation author Lin Yutang
„No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.“
― Lin Yutang ―
Picture of quotation author Malala Yousafzai
„I like writers who can show me worlds I know nothing about, but my favorites are those who create characters or worlds which feel realistic and familiar to me, or who can make me feel inspired.“
Picture of quotation author Peter York
„The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.“
― Peter York ―
Picture of quotation author Michael York
„They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.“
― Michael York ―
Picture of quotation author John Wycliffe
„The laity ought to understand the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the people, and to this end the Holy Ghost endued them with knowledge of all tongues.“
― John Wycliffe ―
Picture of quotation author Bow Wow
„My fans saw 'Roll Bounce,' but also that older crowd who might not have been familiar with me on the music tip saw 'Roll Bounce' and loved it. 'Roll Bounce' opened up that door for me to have older people love Bow Wow and opened up that door so all of the kids would love Bow Wow. My fan base is really diverse; it's all ages and all colors.“
― Bow Wow ―
Picture of quotation author Herman Wouk
„Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.“
― Herman Wouk ―
Picture of quotation author Alfre Woodard
„When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.“
― Alfre Woodard ―
Picture of quotation author Edward Witten
„Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.“
― Edward Witten ―
Picture of quotation author Joseph B. Wirthlin
„Too many sit at the banquet table of the gospel of Jesus Christ and merely nibble at the feast placed before them. They go through the motions - attending their meetings perhaps, glancing at scriptures, repeating familiar prayers - but their hearts are far away.“
Picture of quotation author Roy H. Williams
„One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.“
― Roy H. Williams ―
Picture of quotation author Alfred North Whitehead
„Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.“
Picture of quotation author Jacki Weaver
„I do a lot of American plays. I've done a lot of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Neil Simon. I was in 'Sisters Rosensweig,' 'Six Degrees of Separation,' all of that stuff. So we're very familiar with America. I did 400 performances of 'Born Yesterday.' I did 700 performances of 'They're Playing Our Song.'“
― Jacki Weaver ―
Picture of quotation author Damon Wayans, Jr.
„Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.“
Picture of quotation author Patrick Warburton
„Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.“

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