Familiarizations Quotes & Sayings

When a man is familiar with many people he must expect many disagreeable familiarizations. — James Boswell

and
we were afraid
then
that
all throughout our lives
things like that
would
happen,
that nobody
wanted
anybody
to be
strong and
beautiful
like that,
that
others would never
allow it,
and that
many people
would have to
die. — Charles Bukowski

Rule Number One in the India Savage Life Code: When in doubt or possible trouble, lie. — Kristen Ashley

Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins. — Sharon Creech

You aren't going to go crazy," I said firmly. "You're stronger than you think. The next time you feel that way, find something to focus on, to remind you of who are."
"Like what? Got some magic object in mind?"
"Doesn't have to be magic," I said. I racked my brain. "Here." I unfastened the golden cross necklace. "This has always been good for me. Maybe it'll help you." I set it in his hand, but he caught hold of mine before I could pull back — Richelle Mead

here. "I thought it was too dangerous — Sandra Hill

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality. — Carolyn Heilbrun

The pilgrims and the lost often did look the same, — Paula McLain

The only people who have doubts about the sincerity of my music are people who come to it relatively late, off the back of having seen me in a film. Acting is about being other people, and music is about being myself. — Riz Ahmed

A lot of the films I've made probably could have worked just as well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of old-fashion values. — Steven Spielberg

The Forest bellowed out its victory to the winds; the winds in turn proclaimed it to the Night. — Algernon Blackwood

If you want to be the best,
Work hardier than the rest.
If you don't want to be the best,
Just work like the rest. — Bob Stinson

One of the skills you have to master in theater is the ability to make the audience believe that things that aren't there are there - just like when you're acting against CGI. Also, in a theater, the people in the back row can't see the whites of your eyes. Or your lips moving as you deliver dialogue. — David Oyelowo

To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution. — Max More

Isobel's head popped up. "What does 'sagacious' mean?"
"Sagacious," he said, writing, "adjective describing someone in possession of acute mental faculties. Also describing one who might, in a bookstore, think to get up and locate an actual dictionary instead of asking a billion questions. — Kelly Creagh