Quotes About Familiarity

I don't want people turning on the telly and going, 'Dear God, not him again.'

I've turned up to auditions and seen faces that I recognise and I think I know them. Then I realise I know them because they are on the telly.

It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.

Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.

The feel of her was both new and familiar, as though he had held her a long time ago, as though he had missed it without knowing it for years.

She has an enviable capacity for enjoying the familiar.

He had an odd double impression of being exactly where he belonged, and where he'd never belonged, of intense familiarity and of separateness.

In certain books—some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother.

I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. – John 10:14

become all too familiar and

Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.

the implications of the amazing new fact of nature called nonlocality cannot be properly understood without some familiarity with the actual history of scientific thought.

Stephanie knew mat in many things

This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.

Aquélla sería su casa. Aunque para Julián aquel mundo mágico de Sivana era una absoluta novedad, tenía sin embargo la sensación de que era un poco como volver a casa, un regreso a un paraíso que hubiera conocido mucho tiempo atrás. Aquella aldea de rosas no le resultaba

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.

The most important input into conservative thinking is the desire to sustain the networks of familiarity and trust on which a community depends for its longevity. Conservatism is what its name says it is: the attempt to conserve the community that we have

Il volto quasi familiare diventa un fenomeno comune in una società affollata ed in un continuo movimento. Penso talvolta che sia proprio ciò che in ultima analisi rimane di noi: schemi di lineamenti, alcuni un po' più persistenti degli altri, impressi sullo scorrere dei volti. (Il Boia torna a casa)

because there was no place where I felt more at home in a public assembly than in this old church

How vital then that we come to know God's Word as a familiar friend: Even the Holy Spirit cannot cause us to remember something we never learned!

For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.