Familiar Things Quotes

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Place, Rather

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Two, Familiar, Author

When I've tried to reinvent the wheel, I get bashed for not doing the familiar things.
Billy Corgan

Tried, Reinvent, Familiar

Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Happen, Mankind

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all.
Donald Judd

Simple, Someone, Saying

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