Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

- Jane Smiley

I have an enormous fondness for delicious food. It's very comforting.

- Teri Garr

It's very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.

- Raymond Aubrac

How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?

- Richard Dawkins

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

- Noam Chomsky

I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world.

- Marc Jacobs

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

- Louis C. K.

It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'

- Kelly Macdonald

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

- Joe Henderson

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

- Alice Walker

I'm interested in the kind of religion that makes life harder. I'm not so interested in the comforting kind of religion.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

To be with old friends is very warming and comforting.

- Ian Ziering

It is comforting to reflect that the disproportion of things in the world seems to be only arithmetical.

- Franz Kafka

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

- Fareed Zakaria

It's quite comforting to me as an individualist that we're not very close to being clones of one other.

- Craig Venter

It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.

- Amy Adams

I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

- Anthony Bourdain

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

- Ann Landers