Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gail Carriger

I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

We do fundamentals like shooting, passing, dribbling and defense. As soon as we can, we get into game situations so they can become familiar with them.

Adam Carriker

We play a tougher schedule, but we can be very good. We have a lot of returning people, and we're familiar with the system. There is no excuse, no reason why we shouldn't be very good and playing in the Big 12 title game.

Vicky Hartzler

We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

Alan Alda

If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

Valentina Tereshkova

It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.

Gene Luen Yang

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

Katherine LaNasa

I personally like to hang out with people; if I'm playing their mom, I'd like to go have lunch with the kid, and I want to try to spend as much time with people that I can while we are working together if we're supposed to have a familiar relationship with them, because I think it reads.

Christine Elise

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

Pat Buchanan

For years, my friends, we have all heard that familiar taunt, 'Don't worry about them; they have nowhere else to go.' Well, guess what? We have somewhere else to go. At long last, we have a home of our own,

Found sounds are sounds like pots and pans, rice in milk jugs - things you can come up with to make music around the house with familiar objects.

Utada Hikaru

I'd been familiar with the recording process since I was little, but I felt that this is what it's like to actually do it myself.

Steven Millhauser

If you read a story with an 'I' or a 'he' or a 'she,' you're in familiar territory - but 'we' is mostly unexplored. I think of 'we' as an adventure.

Anna Quindlen

Familiarity breeds content.

Mike Ferguson

Kids are often more familiar with these products than parents, but they don't realize how harmful these products can be to hearing. It can lead to a lifelong ailment.

Beck Hansen

I think you just end up following into the things that you're familiar with -- that you're comfortable with, ... I just happened to be lucky that I was interested in music.

Tom Brady

Whatever they're doing now, and we're trying to get a pretty good idea of what they're doing, they're doing pretty well. Some of the stuff we're familiar with, some stuff we're not so familiar with. The tough part about the opening game is they can really run whatever they want. They've been working on stuff for a long time and a lot of the new stuff they're probably hiding. So that's probably what they're thinking.

We're pretty familiar with each other. Playing them will make us better.

Andy Reid

He's a very smart player and is very familiar with our offensive system. He'll be a great back-up to Donovan.

Mike Woodson

He's been here and he's familiar with everything we do.

I think that most people that are on those roads are familiar with them, and the rare instance that they aren't familiar with them, we do have two of these signs.

Michael Sheen

I think it's quite tough for people like Tom Cruise where you can never really get away from being Tom Cruise in something. You're so familiar to people and people know so much about your life.

It got really familiar. It's not something you want to be familiar with.

Cecelia Ahern

I always take a story that's kind of out there, like an urban myth. I take some possibility that people imagine, that they are familiar with, and try to turn it into a story.

Having grown up in this area, I am very familiar with Duquesne and its tradition of success. I look forward to getting started.

He'll run in Jeremy's name. He knows the horse and he knows his way around there. He's familiar with the surroundings. It's a win-win situation for everyone.

John Flaherty

If they have more than one hearing, it won't be that bad. But you get the sense they're trying to rush some of this, which makes it hard for people to take time to read and get familiar with this and come down to Dover.

Brittany Bowe

I guess I could take things from every place that I've been and find something familiar and wonderful about it that makes me feel like I'm at home.

Jacques Barzun

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house.

Gary Smith

We had some people in places they hadn't played before. A lot of kids were not familiar with their assignments.

Penelope Mitchell

I remember being this little girl missing her daddy and living so far away in France and from anything that was familiar to me. I felt so different and so isolated. When you're removed from everything that's familiar, you realize who you are.