Quotes About Familiarity

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine.

Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he'd been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed.

I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb.

she keeps takin' me in—so I suppose she must be home.

All the sounds of the house, from the creak of the back stair under an early-rising maid's foot, to the drumming rain on the roofslates, were sounds he had heard a thousand times before; heard so often, he didn't hear them anymore. I did.

I never assume people are going to recognize me.

I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.

Certainly, when I walk into an audition, a lot of people already know who I am.

My friends in Australia, they grew up with me acting, so they're used to it.

It's always nice to come home and work in Australia with friends I've known since I started.

I think being back in Australia has kind of helped a little bit because you just feel really comfortable around everyone, and it's the same environment that I've grown up in.

I'm like an old dog, I hate to be run off from home.

I adore the fact that when I'm driving home from work, as soon as I hit my neighbourhood, I see people I know.

I am at home in Dublin, more than in any other city.

I'll talk your ear off if you recognize me.

My whole family are in the entertainment industry. It is always something I was used to; I was quite lucky growing up. To all my friends, it was quite exciting, but to me it was quite normal.

We're thankful for the horrors we are used to. The unknown ones are worst

At home, we had lots of streets too, but they were all familiar with each other. Here, there are so many more streets that they can't possibly all know each other. It's a fabulous city.

I believe in a set of values I cannot live by. I set high goals for myself, I seek perfection, dream of exotic faraway places. But ultimately, what I long for isn't far away at all. It's in my own backyard. Imperfection charms me, familiar things move me... a celebration of what we have, instead of what we long for. That for me, is glamor.

these are people used to seeing one another daily year after year; everything they say is the continuation of things already said.

Essa subito decise, perché afferrò la mia mano per trattenermi più sicuramente e mi fece entrare. L'emozione m'oscurò la vista e ritengo sia stata provocata non tanto dal dolce contatto di quella mano, ma da quella familiarità che mi parve decidesse del mio e del destino di Augusta. Perciò credo di essere entrato con qualche riluttanza e, quando rievoco la storia del mio primo tradimento, ho il sentimento di averlo compiuto perché trascinatovi.

This is our climate. We have grown up in this air, this light, and we grasp it on our skin, where it grasps us. We know this earth, this grass, this polished red stone with the soles of our feet. We will never be ourselves anywhere else. Happier, perhaps, healthier, less burdened, more secure. But we will never be closer to who we are than this.

But it was better to know of it than to see it in its daily monotony.