Overfamiliar Quotes & Sayings

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools. — Denis Hayes

There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking! — Fela Durotoye

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. — Steven Pressfield

Because my wife worked for him, and I run security checks on anyone my wife works with - Christian Grey — E.L. James

Her bikini - small; heels - tall
She said she liked the ocean. — LL Cool J

Riots are the voices of the unheard. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Life is not as easy as croosing a field — Boris Pasternak

But what is happening in America today is, I think, unparalleled in history. We are rising to the top and falling to the bottom; we are becoming wealthier as individuals and baser as a society; we are more powerful than ever and less mindful; we share a level of prosperity that is so high that it is a new thing in history, unprecedented in the story of man, and yet this wonderful thing we share has not made us closer as a people. And this has implications. — Peggy Noonan

I have very strongly this feeling ... that our everyday life is at one and the same time banal, overfamiliar, platitudinous and yet mysterious and extraordinary. — Bryan Magee

Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever. — Maggie Stiefvater

Giorgio cannot leave a bottle undrunk or an attractive woman unfucked, and those activities tend to get in the way of revolution. — Don Winslow

You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them in your face. A stranger in a bar could do the same ... — Sarah Schulman

Issues such as transparency often boil down to which side of - pick a number - 40 you're on. Under 40, and transparency is generally considered a good thing for society. Over 40, and one generally chooses privacy over transparency. On every side of this issue, hypocrisy abounds. — Graydon Carter

You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline. — Cass McCombs

Love is both the question and the answer. — Brownell Landrum