Make The Familiar Strange Quotes

#1. The main reason I did 'Captain America' was because I wanted to get out of my own head and stop taking my work so seriously.

Hayley Atwell

#2. I need to give up the OPTION of ever having what I want

Jim Maclaine

#3. A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. To write a novel, you need an iron butt.

Richard M. Nixon

#5. And then it was the kind of dark your eyes never adjust to.

John Green

#6. Early in this century a group of passionate artists in Russia claimed that the essence of art was to make the familiar seem strange. Perhaps this is also one of the roles of the exotic, to alter and sharpen our perceptions.

SueEllen Campbell

#7. To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

Henry Van Dyke

#8. Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

John McCain

#9. My hopes and dreams, so tattered and tender, had been sheltered by secrecy for so long that I could not bear to bring them to light.

S. Jae-Jones

#10. Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.

Dean Koontz

#11. As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Sidney Poitier

#12. To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Novalis

#13. It is as though he has just recognized me. Then his eyes continue to sweep, and my heart comes hammering back to my ribs. I'm just being paranoid.

Lauren Oliver

#14. We are only moments away from the past. But it only takes a moment for everything to change, for the world to wobble on its axis and make the familiar strange.

Sheila Turner Johnston

#15. One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

Alber Elbaz

#16. I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?

Liz Phair

#17. It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Auguste Rodin

#18. Successfully functioning in a society with diverse values, traditions and lifestyles requires us to have a relationship to our own reactions rather than be captive of them. To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.

Robert Kegan

#19. The alternative to the myth of pure evil is that most of the harm that people visit on one another comes from motives that are found in every normal person.

Steven Pinker

#20. I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men." - Sir Isaac Newton

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