Defamiliarization Quotes

#1. Even in so-called realist or conventional writing there can be defamiliarization.

Leni Zumas

#2. Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.

Stacy Schiff

#3. Privatization of assets that most of us consider public goods - like airports and highways - has a long, often-uncontroversial history.

Bethany McLean

#4. Miracles ... seem to me to rest not so much upon ... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that, for a moment, our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there around us always.

Willa Cather

#5. Every year I try and challenge myself more and more, whether it be acting or everything I do. I just want to try and be better than the year before.

Brett Dier

#6. We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.

Winston S. Churchill

#7. Forgiving is a gift to the forgiver as well as to the perpetrator.

Desmond Tutu

#8. The world sits quiet, as if sighing and taking a long inhale after what seemed like forever with mankind and the noise pollution.

Tara Brown

#9. I'd love to come to Middle Earth! Apparently Auckland is an amazing city, one of the best to live in too.

Coeur De Pirate

#10. There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

Chris Colfer

#11. We are imperfect beings in a very imperfect world, and the one thing we can count on is that things will go wrong, and that each and every one of us will have problems.

Bob Parsons

#12. Scarlett: You should die of shame to leave me here alone and helpless. Rhett: You helpless? (laughs) Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you.

Vivien Leigh