Quotes About Familiarity

This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

I've forgotten about these things all winter, but here they are again, and when I see them I remember them, I know them, I greet them as if they are home.

but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

What did they know about you? I know you.

Sometimes she thought that all the people she had ever known were strangers except Rhett. "Can't

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

I'm a creature of habit. I go to restaurants all the time and stuff.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

Sometimes you meet people and you feel like you've known them for a long time.

Anyone familiar with the love affairs between men and women could have told them that theirs would soon be over.

I Remember how we put in a security system to keep intruders out of the house, and how we only used it when we went on vacations. It didn't matter: OUr intruder had a place at our table, kew where we hid the Easter eggs and where we'd buried the pet guinea pigs, was so familiar that when I saw him in the bedroom doorway that last time I thought he was my own son, come to kill me.

I like to read things I've read before. It's like listening over and over to your favorite song.

And I knew the step on the stairs. I knew the step on the porch. It was Lestat.

Maybe because I'd read the chronicles so avidly, I felt Lestat was as close to me as I was to him.

How could you think I wouldn't know you? he chided softly. I know the way you move, the way you bite your lip when you're nervous, the sound of your laughter, your eyes. I know your hands and your skin, your scent, the way you try to pretend that something doesn't bother you when you're very bothered indeed.

that was what happened when you were thinking of someone: every random stranger seemed to be that someone at first glance.

The exposure effect is also good news for those of us who weren't born gorgeous. It means that the people who know us best—our parents and children, our best friends and true loves—ultimately 'forget' what we look like. How symmetrical or clear-skinned we are disappears into the experiences we've shared with someone.

Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

in virtually every industry the most trusted brand is also the most profitable. Frequency led to awareness, awareness to familiarity, and familiarity to trust. And trust, almost without exception, leads to profit.

Before a marketer can build trust, it must breed familiarity. But there's no familiarity without awareness. And awareness—the science of letting people know you exist and getting them to understand your message—can't happen effectively in today's environment without advertising.

Familiarity breeds wrong conclusions, the Guild taught.

I was learning the truth: though I felt lonely and scared, I was the well-loved girl of God. And though these feelings of loneliness were familiar, I was coming into an understanding: just because a place has become familiar doesn't mean its where you belong.