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Quotes About Familiarity

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.
~ Hank Green
I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.
~ Kadeena Cox
What is there so offensive to which habit has not the power to reconcile us?
~ William Godwin
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.
~ Timothy White
A lot of people refer to me as somebody that they know. I think that kind of energy resonates with the programs on Netflix.
~ Rob Morgan
What I hear is that people think of me as their cousin or their sister or somebody they want to hang out with.
~ GloZell
I'm happiest when I'm with people who have known me for years.
~ Kelvin Fletcher
I'm familiar with Bournemouth because of my relationship with Harry Arter. It's a football club I know well from watching him over the years.
~ Scott Parker
Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.
~ Lance Morrow
Big Ben... hearing the chimes makes me feel at home.
~ Jane Birkin
People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.
~ Bonnie McKee
You put this face on television, week in, week out, they'd stop me and they'd say, 'Hey, Roy, how are you doing?' They'd know who I was, what I was, what I looked like, and what I did - all from seeing and hearing it at the same time on television.
~ Roy Clark
I've played TaylorMade drivers since I was in high school, so it's a comfortable look for me.
~ Xander Schauffele
Oblige me by telling me where I am. That is impossible. You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
~ George MacDonald
You know nothing about whereness. The only way to come to know where you are is to begin to make yourself at home.
~ George MacDonald
But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not begun, the harder is it to enter into the kingdom of heaven. Such familiarity is a soul-killing experience, and great will be the excuse for some of those sons of religious parents who have gone further toward hell than many born and bred thieves and sinners.
~ George MacDonald
The book fascinated him, or more exactly it reassured him. In a sense it told him nothing that was new, but that was part of the attraction.
~ George Orwell
I do know them each by heart because
~ George S. Clason
Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep.
~ George S. Clason
Admiration and familiarity are strangers.
~ George Sand
That day I learned a person can get used to anything. Soon it all seemed normal to us, and we even joked about it
~ George Saunders
It seems we only sleep well in our own bed.
~ Georges Perec
But perhaps I might feel strange, and unlike myself. It wouldn't be comfortable, not to be acquainted with myself.
~ Georgette Heyer
Seems old?" said Violet. "Do I know her?" "Yes, you all know her very well," said Mr. Alden. "She is Mrs. McGregor." "Mrs. McGregor!" shouted all the children. They could not believe it.
~ Gertrude Chandler Warner