#familiar

I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a long time and is quite familiar and so that does make it easier. ↗

— Toni Collette

#american television #been #does #easier #familiar

The original judgment of the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA was that there were three shots. I don't think that convinced us except as a statement by people, many of them who were familiar with ballistics. This question troubled me greatly. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

#convinced #except #familiar #fbi #greatly

Rule one: Write about settings you're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#familiar #rule #settings #write #you

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with. ↗

— Jeffery Deaver

#busy #buy #commitment #days #expensive

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a million times faster, just as a smaller tuning fork produces a higher pitch than a large one. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#familiar #faster #fork #higher #just

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. ↗

— Christoph Waltz

#comic #comic book #culture #familiar #i

One thing that hasn't changed, though, is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us, even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them. ↗

— Roy H. Williams

#advertiser #affect #already #before #begins

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective. ↗

— James Wolcott

#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ↗

— Lin Yutang

#beautiful #comes #familiar #head #his

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#direct #familiar #feelings #function #i