The two most engaging powers of a good author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decid...
MAUD HART LOVELACE Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and ...
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
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BILL CARROLL You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar...
PHILIP LARKIN The path most walked on is the easiest one to use, but probably not the best.
JIM GENOVESE As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it ...
CHARLIE PIERCE They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, thin...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Luxuries are never so comfortable as are the familiar, ordinary things of home.
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BOB TIPTON When people travel, they seek out the familiar as respite against all the new. And there's nothing m...
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DAVID STRAS The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...
ANAIS NIN We are familiar with terrorism. But indiscriminate, cross-border, religiously motivated terrorism is...
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ED SKOUDIS A lot of things we're seeing right now are very familiar pieces, but they're done in a new fabric or...
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JAMES GALWAY It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of famili...
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SUSAN ALLEN Take a story that you're familiar with and tell it in your own words. Then you can relate it to the ...
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DEREK THOMPSON The new Intellect software has a user-friendly interface that incorporates the familiar Windows look...
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BILL PARCELLS The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, bu...
LEO BURNETT Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of famil...
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE If you keep doing only the things you can handle, you will not be able to push the borders of imposs...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When we are sad...it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don't change.
DONNA TARTT One of the things you break down on film is the defense, and it helps if you are familiar with the p...
ARRINGTON JONES Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're f...
EDWARD WITTEN Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition ...
RICHARD V. ALLEN What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar thing...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words a...
LEO BURNETT unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best. Hari -William M. Thackeray.
WILLIAM M. THACKERAY If you make mistake, never loose heart because by making mistake you are learning new things, trying...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's amazing how willingly one can tell to a new face, and how restrained one may be from telling a ...
LAUREN LOLA Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to u...
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving th...
TAHIR SHAH It's not new technology. It's innovatively packaging very familiar technology. That's the best part....
ALAN HALL It's not new technology. It's innovatively packaging very familiar technology, ... That's the best p...
ALAN HALL It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait ca...
JONATHAN HAIDT I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure ...
FRED ROGERS One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot...
JENNIFER CARPENTER All good things in life are inspired by your friends is the new All good things in life are free
OCTAV DRUTA The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
BOB LEMON There are really two types of laughter on the part of the spectator. There is the laughter of recogn...
MICHAEL HANEKE I think we need to do a much better job of creating new citizens, ... Oftentimes new immigrants aren...
ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things.
TEMPLE GRANDIN The reasons we were convinced of Vivaldi's authorship are many and varied. Essentially, the new work...
JANICE STOCKIGT Due to short prep time - some athletes had two days of practice thanks to successful basketball seas...
LEE SILVER When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
BILLY CORGAN Whether they had the new players or not, they're still a team we're not familiar with. They're a com...
AMADO GUEVARA I like to discover new things.
OLIVIER MEGATON His name is vaguely familiar. Basically, I agree with everything the New Labour candidate said about...
JACK MCCONNELL She's familiar. My only familiar thing in a world of inconsistency and confusion.
COLLEEN HOOVER The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of ...
ALAIN DE BOTTON The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of th...
MOBY It helps that I'm familiar with a lot of things Carolina does. I don't know if it'll help on the cou...
SCOTT CHERRY Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages...
BARBARA KRUGER We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profound...
HAROLD BLOOM It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own ...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Consumers are seeking out anything unique, new and engaging.
GILLIAN SMITH I wasn't familiar enough to teach about those things, let alone how to do those things, which I now ...
KRISTINE JENNINGS It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The g...
GEORGE SANTAYANA The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes f...
CHRISTOPHER LASCH There are a few things worrying the market today, but the most relevant is New York.
HELIO OZAKI Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most v...
EZRA TAFT BENSON To dare every day to be irreverent and bold. To dare to preserve the randomness of mind which in chi...
GORDON WEBBER So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to ...
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing can be said nowadays which has not already been said
TERENCE Behold, I make all things new.
BIBLE There are a lot of familiar teams.
MUFFET MCGRAW They have new ideas and new ways of doing things, but it will be good for the students.
LARRY JOHANNESSEN A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, ...
MAX PLANCK A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good thing...
ACE FREHLEY Most travel agents are very familiar with different types of insurance policies for medical coverage...
CHRIS MCGINNIS The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becom...
JEAN PIAGET At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are mo...
JESSICA LANGE I think everyone around here is familiar with him and his work. And we've got new awards; we've been...
LINDA LARSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Not to make excuses, but the first game we had a new coach and it was a whole new thing for us. Now,...
JEN UHL A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, b...
MAX PLANCK Happily it's a new Disney. They have a new CEO and one of the good things he's done is mend a lot of...
DAVID KATZ In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totall...
ALEXANDER RODCHENKO Funny how the new things are the old things.
RUDYARD KIPLING To cultivate bravery and courage, try something new for the first time. Take a chance. Stretch beyon...
SUSAN C. YOUNG When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfami...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Suppose you like someone very much. Then, by a familiar halo effect, you will also be prone to belie...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I wr...
LAURA BELL BUNDY
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WILLIAM MORRIS Give me love and work - these two only.
WILLIAM MORRIS 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do n...
WILLIAM BLAKE We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though she be but little, she is fierce.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What's done can't be undone.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All love is lost but upon God alone.
WILLIAM DUNBAR The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the p...
WILLIAM STYRON Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
WILLIAM BARCLAY God himself took this human flesh upon him.
WILLIAM BARCLAY But the best definition of it is to say that heaven is that state where we will always be with Jesus...
WILLIAM BARCLAY If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attai...
WILLIAM BARCLAY The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
WILLIAM BARCLAY The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing H...
WILLIAM BARCLAY Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love C...
WILLIAM BARCLAY