So I usually call the songs when I get on the stage, according to what the crowd FEELS like to me. I can jump from 50 years ago to right up to now, and PEOPLE will be FAMILIAR with the songs. And SINCE we NEVER do them the same way, it's a new experience.

The SECRET of all effective originality in advertising is not the CREATION of NEW and TRICKY words and pictures, but one of PUTTING familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Watching FAMILIAR characters take UNEXPECTED TURNS is very appealing.

Although we love the idea of CHOICE - our culture ALMOST worships it - we SEEK REFUGE in the FAMILIAR and the comfortable.

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of FAMILIAR FIGURES AROUND the house.

Never just RUN through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but USE it to SEE what you can get from it on this new DAY which has been granted you.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to WALK down FAMILIAR PATHS. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their INFLUENCE.

Nothing is more common than for MEN to THINK that because they are familiar with WORDS they understand the ideas they STAND for.

The laity ought to UNDERSTAND the faith, and since the doctrines of our faith are in the Scriptures, believers should have the Scriptures in a language familiar to the PEOPLE, and to this END the Holy GHOST endued them with KNOWLEDGE of all tongues.

He who does not BECOME FAMILIAR with NATURE through love will never KNOW her.

For me, working on the SETS with Mani Ratnam is so FAMILIAR. It is the PLACE where I grew up, so I am not NERVOUS here.

If I had undertaken the PRACTICAL direction of military OPERATIONS, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience WOULD torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been FAMILIAR with military TACTICS.