#liar

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

I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar with and whose heritage deserves to be questioned. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#always #deserves #familiar #features #had

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

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#expect #familiar #new #new technology #part

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. ↗

— Mel Torme

#hit #hit single #i #liar #lovely

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

Belief is a very peculiar thing: we tend to put more store in a belief we like than a fact we hate. ↗

— Stephen Tobolowsky

#fact #hate #like #more #peculiar

I'm not very interested in charting a day-to-day familiar reality. I'm always looking for territory in which to explore the BIG subjects, the life-or-death stories. ↗

— Rose Tremain

#big #charting #day-to-day #explore #familiar

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#based #because #business #doctor #early