Quotes About Familiarity

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

I was actually raised around a lot of children. So, I'm very comfortable around children.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

There are certain people you feel like you've known for a long time from the moment you meet them, and that's exactly how it was with Gaga.

My friends call me 'George,' 'GM,' or 'Georgia.' But most people who know me from when I was little call me 'Georgia May.'

I wanted to go away from home, but not too far from home.

Everybody already knows what Godzilla is.

I like getting up when everyone else does and going home when everyone else does.

What I love about going home is that, if I turn my phone off or don't open my computer, nothing's changed. Obviously, the world has changed for me, but home looks and feels exactly the same.

Like catching a glimpse of the McDonald's golden arches after a night out, when I see the blue and white Boots sign in the distance I feel comforted.

When I find a golf course or a restaurant or a market that I like, that's pretty much exclusively where I go.

no one is a stranger, this whole world is your home

The faces we lose track of most easily are the faces of the people who are closest to us, the people we love the most whose faces we see so often that we can't really see them anymore.

Tracy stood up and found that the room was swaying around him in a manner that would have been more disconcerting if it had been less familiar.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

What is familiar is what we are used to; and what we are used to is most difficult to 'Know' - that is, to see as a problem; that is, to see as strange, as distant, as 'outside us'.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession.

There are some people that we know all our lives and yet never really feel we know them at all. But there are other people—" Unable to resist the temptation, he ran a feather-light caress down the curve of her cheek with one leather-sheathed knuckle. The cobalt depths of her eyes flickered with response, but she said nothing, heeding his every word. "—people we meet in a day, and instantly, it feels as though we've known them all our lives.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

My hats did give me an identity. In fact, if I had a dollar for every time someone has seen me bareheaded and said, 'I almost didn't recognize you without a hat on', I could have bought the Cowboys myself.

Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers - but with friends and family she can be very witty.

Back when Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin were doing roasts, they were all friends. They knew each other's children, each other's wives, each other's families. It wasn't about being disrespectful. It was about being funny.