Quotes About Familiarity

If I made nothing of it, then surely no one else would either. ... To accustom others to my face was the best short cut to getting used to it myself.

Danach folgte eine Haarbürste. »Für Mädchen«, sagte er. »Pink mit Glitter.« »Du kennst mich so gut.«

who knows you better than your own brother?

I DIDN'T KNOW what she was thinking or feeling. Her body had become unfamiliar to me. And yet, at the very same time, I recognized everything about her. My sister, Fern. In the whole wide world, my only red poker chip. As if I were looking in a mirror.

He wanted to know her with such familiarity that he could curve his fingers around a wrist, an ankle, a knee and recognize her from a hundred, a thousand other women

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

No man is a hero to his own valet.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.

Oh good gray head which all men knew!

You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.

Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.

I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

So you're mother? Nice to put a name to a face.

Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could.

I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.