Quotes About Familiarity

There were other clubs that I had options to go to, but Fulham has always kind of been like home to me.

'Orange Is the New Black' was my home show. I knew the set; I knew everyone there.

Oregon is home to me.

I don't know that the Brits have the monopoly on being organized, but they do have a way of working with which I'm familiar. It's not necessarily the best way, but it's a way.

New Orleans is kind of like a second home for me.

I've played the outfield my whole life. It's like riding a bike.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

If we were to inspect ourselves or members of our family and our friends, we would see that we don't really have to go all the way overseas to be mystified - we can be mystified right at home.

The reason why Hollywood cranks out so many sequels and adaptations is because the audience is so overwhelmed with choices, the only way to get them in the theater is to give them something familiar.

For anthropologists, even the exotic's not exotic, let alone the everyday.

This machine is driven in part by the oscillations of novelty and familiarity, of hunger and satiation, that curious internal psychophysical calculus that causes us to tire of food, music, the color orange. But it is also driven in part by the subtle movements of people trying to be like each other and people trying to be different from each other.

This speaker may turn out to be a "confidence man" with a trick up his sleeve, but we are attracted by such familiar flavors of speech, the way that bees are attracted to the blue juice of a melting popsicle.

If we can fight the tendency to let it become so familiar that we don't notice it, we can be challenged every week to remember that God doesn't want our bloody victories and that sacrifice doesn't really overcome our rivalries. At least for Christians, that crucifix should be the emblem of the end of violence.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Where had he heard that before?

Stories were my passion, whether they were from books, comics or cartoons. I learned them all by heart and was as familiar with the characters as if they were members of my own family.

A reader meeting another reader is an encounter of kindred spirits. The pleasure of such a joyous event is impossible to describe to a nonreader, and why would I bother? But you, with this book in your hand, are familiar with the phenomenon, and so it is not necessary.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

I know what I like—I like art—and I like what I know.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph or painting.

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

I was feeling everything much too much. Everything was pulling at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools. I sat on terraces and stared for afternoons at mediocre views. I was feeling overjoyed for happy couples. I would see or hear about people, usually people I hardly knew or didn't even like, getting together, finding each other after so much groping, and I would feel bliss. I was blindsided by familiar things.