Quotes About Familiarity

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

You might be a redneck if the first words out of your mouth every time you see friends are Howdy!, Hey! or How Y'all Doin'?

One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.

We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.

I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.

Sé de gentes a quienes he frecuentado toda mi vida y que no reconoceré en los infiernos.

It was the kind of light that rests on your shoulders the way a cat lies on your lap. So familiar.

So when she seemed distracted or absent-minded, it was in fact, I think, that she was aware of too many things, having no principle for selecting the more from the less important, and that her awareness could never be diminished, since it was among the things she had thought of as familiar that this disaster had taken shape.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

I know Long Island like I know my kitchen. I understand it's there for my pleasure and enjoyment, but somehow I never manage to go there.

Reading is the parent of fine writing. It fosters familiarity with the written word & sets the template for a writer's journey ~ Mark Rubinstein

The tone of the repartee was familiar, as was the subject matter, a strangely comfortable background music to most of my waking hours over the last two decades or so - and I realised that, my God... I've been listening to the same conversation for twenty-five years!

The law of familiarity says that if we are around anything (or anyone) long enough, we tend to take things just a little bit for granted.

Familiarity does breed contempt;—doesn't it?

We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

Who are you, then?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes." "Good Lord!" "You have heard of me, I see.

There is nothing new under the sun. It has been done before.

Do you think he'll make a good king?" I asked. Again she seemed surprised. "Yes," she said. "But then I've known him all my life." As if that explains everything, I thought.

This damn place, Natalie said, 2it always turns out not to have the things I want, after all. I get up inside and i knock over an ashtray and everyone looks at me and here I come rushing outdoors because I think it´s where I want to be, and then when I get out here it turns out to be the same old place I passed coming in Thats because you came out the same door, suggested Tony.

Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home.

In the old days the worst part of my depression used to be the astonishment it caused me, the scandalized way in which I fought against it. Nowadays, on the other hand, I accept it cheerfully enough, like an old familiar friend.