Quotes About Familiarity

It always feels good to come back here. I love New York... it's just nice to see a lot of familiar faces.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.

Familiarity breeds indifference.

La familiaridad engendra la indiferencia.

Familiarity breeds indifference. We have seen too much pure, bright color at Woolworth's to find it intrinsically transporting. And here we may note that, by its amazing capacity to give us too much of the best things, modern technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials.

Nature at the middle distance is familiar - so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about. See very close at hand, or at a great distance, or from an odd angle, it seems disquietingly strange, wonderful beyond all comprehension.

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love

F]amiliarity with traditionally hallowed writings tends to breed, not indeed contempt, but something which, for practical purposes, is almost as bad - namely a kind of reverential insensibility, a stupor of the spirit, an inward deafness to the meaning of the sacred words.

It is always the same, Mma Makutsi—every time. Exactly the same. So now I know what that guy says without needing to read his book." This was heresy, and for a few moments Mma Makutsi was almost too shocked to respond.

Hello, honey," he said. "You are a very nice fat lady. I like a soft mattress." She drew in her breath. "Then go home and lie down on your bed," she said. "Go back to your wife. I know her, by the way.

So happy to be home I feel as if I'm swimming in syrup.

The fact is that roughly two-thirds of all fiction purchases are made because the consumer is already familiar with the author.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

Of all the places you could go, I just thought youd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know.

We mustve been here before, its still fresh on my mind. You got that shit that somebody would look for but wont find. You mustve done this before, this cant be your first time.

But I gotta say, oh, baby, oh baby, why is this so familiar? Just met her, already feel like I know the real her.

There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

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

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.