Quotes About Familiarity

My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone.

New York is never a megalopolis of however many millions; it's always just your neighborhood—the shoe repair guy, the carpenter, the grocer, the post office—like any small town in Texas, really. (Dan Rather, from My First New York)

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

La gente debería saber que al comienzo el enemigo tenía la forma de objetos cotidianos: coches, edificios, teléfonos. Luego, cuando empezaron a diseñarse a sí mismos, los robots resultaban familiares pero al mismo tiempo deformes, como personas y animales de otro universo creados por otro dios.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

While that sense of familiarity in a stressed life of adult responsibilities is understandable, as we've seen, it may also be a reason why the adult-adolescent relationship is filled at times with tension. Adults desire things to stay the same; adolescents are driven to create a new world. This is part of the source of what can become intense friction, sometimes destructively so, that can create pain in everyone, adolescent and adult alike.

Anything that makes it easier for the associative machine to run smoothly will also bias beliefs. A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact. But

Words that you have seen before become easier to see again—you can identify them better than other words when they are shown very briefly or masked by noise, and you will be quicker (by a few hundredths of a second) to read them than to read other words. In short, you experience greater cognitive ease in perceiving a word you have seen earlier, and it is this sense of ease that gives you the impression of familiarity.

Our viewers are loyal. They've seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It's like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?

It always just feels good going back home. It feels like nothing has changed. Seeing my room, the views. It, like, grounds you.

Coca-Cola is the only business in the world where no matter which country or town or village you are in, if someone asks what do you do, and you say you work for Coca-Cola, you never have to answer the question, 'What is that?'

I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.

People think New York is this big city where no one knows each other, but when you live in the Village, it's the opposite.

I did not have a very in-depth knowledge of 'Star Trek'. I'd seen a couple of the vintage episodes. I knew just about as much as anyone on the street.

It is okay to experiment with language. Writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf experimented with writing, but basically, one must have a familiarity with the language. And to have that, one must respect it.

I had a strong visceral reaction to the 'Moonlight' script, partly because I felt I knew all of these characters.

What most people mean by type is a sense of attraction - a type of physical appearance or a type of personality turns them on. But what underlies a person's type, in fact, is a sense of familiarity.

It's not that people want to get hurt again. It's that they want to master a situation in which they felt helpless as children. Freud called this "repetition compulsion." Maybe this time, the unconscious imagines, I can go back and heal that wound from long ago by engaging with somebody familiar—but new. The only problem is, by choosing familiar partners, people guarantee the opposite result: they reopen the wounds and feel even more inadequate and unlovable.

Comfort and familiarity are not what God points us toward. Jesus isn't in the business of flying to and fro for the rest of our lives, hand-delivering spiritual baby food to us.

De si loin qu'on se souvînt, la vie avait cette couleur d'habitude

He read the familiar first lines of the book and felt the calm come over him, like a comforter.

Here it is then, the dark thing, the dark thing you have waited for so long. And after all, it is nothing new.

stick. It might look familiar to some of you,' she waited

here, here, there was peace. The deep peace that comes not just with quiet, but with familiarity.