Quotes About Familiarity

As we travel around Britain, I am convinced most of us cannot really appreciate what we are seeing. We take too much for granted, because it is all so familiar.

It's gratifying to hear something familiar and challenging at the same time.

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House', so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.

In fact, I've been around guns for most of my life.

Pretty much every gym I go into, I feel very comfortable. I dump my stuff, take my shoes off, do my thing.

I'm a creature of habit. I don't really like change.

Like, they know that I have a habit of rubbing my earlobes, I've been doing it since I was two.

I have the same friends and the same bad habits.

What is familiar and well known as such is not really known for the very reason that it is familiar and well known.

I thirsted for the unknown: the thirst is gone. O God, let me stay with the known, and be weary of it: I am content.

Una persona bien educada no tiene por costumbre citar a los clásicos en latín cada vez que acude a una reunión social. Tanto los hombres como las mujeres contienen su familiaridad con el humano Cicerón impidiendo que asome durante una conversación coloquial.

the involuntary loss of any familiar object almost always brings a chill as from an evil omen; it seems to be the first finger-shadow of advancing death. From

Ordinary men live among marvels and feel no wonder, grow familiar with objects and learn nothing new about them.

I wondered if people might not have had enough of Simon Armitage and wondered whether I hadn't had enough of Simon Armitage.

One of the wonderful things about 'Jason Bourne' and that franchise is getting to work the same people sporadically and over the course of many years. I'm not so keen on having to get to know a whole group of people.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

If it's genuinely new, when people are hearing it, they're not really gonna be comfortable because they haven't heard it a thousand times before.

I knew Barack Obama, absolutely. And I knew him probably as well as thousands of other Chicagoans.

This is the joke of me being a part of 'Lost': I haven't met three-quarters of that cast.

Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting challenge from the score perspective, to enhance that tension without being noticed, just like those archetypes.

My dad's always been a famous actor, so I've grown up with that, and with the lifestyle. In a way, I think I thrive on the insecurity that comes with it. Not in my private life - I like to believe that my friendships and my relationships are strong.

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.