There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.
I love the idea of women taking control of their money. It's something that many women are not familiar with, but it's crucial.
Vices that are familiar we pardon, and only new ones reprehend.
To love women, to love our vaginas, to know them and touch them and be familiar with who we are and what we need. To satisfy ourselves, to teach our lovers to satisfy us, to be present in our vaginas, to speak of them out loud, to speak of their hunger and pain and loneliness and humor, to make them visible so they cannot be ravaged in the dark without great consequence, so that our center, our point, our motor, our dream, is no longer detached, mutilated, numb, broken, invisible, or ashamed.
I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.
It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.
Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy step. . . the extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question: "What ELSE could we do?"
I don't think there is anybody who's watching television right now who wants to see something because it looks good rather than feel something because it feels right or familiar or new or whatever.
That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.
I had a really regular progression--and this is really pleasant, I think--because I had small parts in TV movies, then bigger parts in TV movies, and then small parts in films. And I think this allows you to get. . . experience of the set and to get familiar with [the process]. And as I had a really slow progression, I think it really helped me to stay lucid and not get carried away.
All love is sweet Given or returned And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.
Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got the best of both British and American television and books, science fiction and fantasy, and so on. So I'm familiar with a lot of, for example, American books and television that a British author of my generation might not be.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
At the time I wasn’t really familiar with Caucasians and he got me up out of that ’cause they regular people just like everybody else.
The best way to know God's will is to be familiar with the Bible.
. . . from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is. " Or even if it is an "it. " Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.