Quotes About Familiarity

People take a liking to me like I'm a long-lost friend.

After you've listened to it, you'll feel like you know us a little bit better.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

I've been shadowing my brother since I was a little kid. Maybe that helped me feel more comfortable with the big guys.

When I come to London now it's like being in L.A., because they know me like I'm at home.

I feel at home when I go to London.

Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.

The Manchester move was OK. I was still in England and I knew I could go back home.

I love this city. Whenever I'm in Manchester, it feels like home.

People Sophie had known all her life came and bought flowers by the bundle. None of them recognized her, and that made her feel very odd.

When your surname is Smith, you need to make very sure everyone knows just which Smith you are.

Of course I recognized it. How could I not, for I had read it goodness knows how many times. 'Jane Eyre,' I said wonderingly. 'You recognized it? Yes, it is. I asked a man in a library. It's by Charlotte someone. She had a lot of sisters, apparently.

The doctor knew his wife was beautiful, but they had been married too long for it to make any difference to him.

One way of overcoming the fear of the new is to make it look like the old. This practice is decried by design purists, but in fact, it has its benefits in easing the transition from the old to the new. It

When we meet somebody who is like us, we feel more safe, mainly because we understand the person better.

If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing, or the pattern of the clematis vines on the trellis, or the velvety swell of land as it faded to gray on the horizon . . . . The very colors of the place had seeped into my blood.

And the farther I walked away, the more upset I got, at the loss of one of the few stable and unchanging docking-points in the world that I'd taken for granted: familiar faces, glad greetings...

When we are sad—at least I am like this—it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don't change.

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

1. Knowledge by acquaintance.

Knowledge by acquaintance is sometimes called "simple seeing," being directly aware of something.

It's funny how much you don't realize about the people you've spent your whole life with, isn't it?

Sometimes the only way to know a thing is to know it first hand, Mr McCormack. See it. Taste it. Smell it. Then you know it

I think I know you absolutely.