Quotes About Familiarity

I was going to McDonald's and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me - it wouldn't even faze them. Or I'd sit up at Denny's or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

Sometimes it's great when, you know, you're sitting down to watch a straightforward story, and you know how it's going to go, and you know how it's going to end. That's a fairy tale.

Even those we know best are strangers, whom we understand, if we ever do, intermittently.

Are you there, sweetheart? Do you know me?

how you get used to it, how you make the new streets yours.

There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful.

Being with him after so long, after everything we'd endured...it was like coming home.

a sense of such oneness and familiarity that words often weren't needed.

This God disrupts the familiarity of the story by interrupting the sacrifice. Picture an early audience gasping. What? This God stopped the sacrifice? The gods don't do that! Second, the God in this story provides. Worship and sacrifice was about you giving to the gods. This story is about this God giving to Abraham. A God who does the giving? A God who does the providing?

Criminals strike close to home just as the average person chooses stores where he shops daily.

Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields again; and they braced themselves for the last long stretch, the home stretch, the stretch that we know is bound to end, some time, in the rattle of the door-latch, the sudden firelight, and the sight of familiar things greeting us as long-absent travelers from far oversea.

Over the page I went, shifting the bit of coal to a new position; and, as the scheme of the picture disengaged itself from out the medley of colour that met my delighted eyes, first there was a warm sense of familiarity, then a dawning recognition, and then — O then! along with blissful certainty came the imperious need to clasp my stomach with both hands, in order to repress the shout of rapture that struggled to escape — it was my own little city!

But it was good to think he had this to come back to; this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

They don't come to church on Sunday morning to think about new ideas or even the old important ones. They want to hear what they've been told before, with only some small variation on what they've been hearing all their lives, and then they want to go home and eat pot roast and say it was a good service and feel satisfied. But

People don't want to be disturbed. They want assurance. They don't come to church on Sunday morning to think about new ideas or even the old important ones. They want to hear what they've been told before, with only some small variation on what they've been hearing all their lives, and then they want to go home and eat pot roast and say it was a good service and feel satisfied.

recognized him right away; the

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.

Sekering dan sesuram apa pun kampung halaman kami, manusia lebih memilih hidup di sana ketimbang di negeri lain, walau negeri itu indah sekalipun. Tidak ada tempat yang lebih baik daripada kampung halaman sendiri.

Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

Por mais sombria e cinzenta que seja nossa casa, nós, de carne e osso, a preferimos a qualquer outro lugar no mundo, por mais esplêndido que seja. Não há melhor lugar do que a nossa casa.

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

On school culture: It's hard to eat something you've had a relationship with.

The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.