Quotes About Familiarity

The little cultural differences could seem absolutely homey, compared to the big ones.

In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried. The meeting with remembered and well-loved passages is like the continual greeting of old friends; nothing is so warming and companionable.

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undeniable joy.

Librarians lose reason when it comes to the regulars, the good people, the readers.

You have always been home for me, and nothing has been the same without you...

We find comfort in routine and in the warmth of our own living rooms.

And suddenly it seemed to Olive that every house she had ever gone into depressed her, except for her own, and the one they had built for Christopher. It was as though she had never outgrown that feeling she must have had as a child - that hypersensitivity to the foreign smell of someone else's home, the fear that coated the unfamiliar way a bathroom door closed, the creak in a staircase worn by footsteps not one's own.

You get used to things, he thinks, without getting used to things.

the sight of him then broke my heart. But I was used to that feeling—I had it almost every time after I saw him.

way that was comfortable. Her house had been

But she no longer felt sadness about it, the pressure of sorrow that had overtaken her at the table, the longing for all the Burgess kids, and the sense of the irreplaceable familiarity of her old life-that had passed the way the cramping of a stomach muscle passes, and the absence of its pain was glorious.

Por aquí han pasado novedades editoriales cuya lectura emprendía con ilusión y curiosidad; pero, a medida que me hago mayor, me inclino más por los viejos conocidos, hermanos de la costa que nunca son del todo viejos porque tienen la cualidad de amoldarse, renovados, frescos y sabios, a la mirada cada vez más fatigada de este su lector. (Prologando «El enigma de las arenas» de Childers...)

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

There's nothing that does not grow light Through habit and familiarity. Putting up with little cares I'll train myself to bear with great adversity!

I just think it's funny the way my brain tries to make sense of strange places by imagining its people are familiar.

Ik zoek de mensen zolang ze vreemden zijn; ik ontvlucht ze zodra ze dat niet meer zijn.

We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

We all should be concerned if our kids don't know who Sandra Day O'Connor, John Adams, and Ronald Reagan are.

All celebrities are real people behind everything.

You see a Donald Trump on TV, just like you'd see Joan Rivers on TV when she was living, and you see a real person. That's the Donald Trump that I know.

We wanted people to remember the name as soon as they heard it. When people become so accustomed to the Wii name, nobody is going to say it's a strange name, just like nobody is going to say that Google is a strange name or IKEA is a strange name today.

If I use my credit card... and they go, 'Oh my gosh, there's Lisa Frank who makes the stickers!' I go, 'Isn't that the craziest thing, that I have the same name?'

If it looks like your grandma's bedsheets, I'll put it on my body.