Quotes About Familiarity

When you're too close to people, when you spend too much time with them and love them too dearly, sometimes you can't see them

It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself.

I've met you many times Lucinda, and most of the time, you're a downright bore.

Every girl on the planet was familiar to one-last-time e-mail checks.

The mind becomes accustomed to things by the habitual sight of them, and neither wonders nor inquires about the reasons for things it sees all the time.

Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

For a little while, hope made a show of reviving-not with any reason to back it, but only because it is its nature to revive when the spring has not been taken out of it by age and familiarity with failure.

In our own case--we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.

It's funny how there are things in this world that do nothing but annoy you, but you know you'd miss them when they're gone.

She looked like someone he must have known all his life. She looked like a little piece of home - whatever the devil his mind meant by presenting him with that odd idea.

How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache

Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

We human beings have a remarkable way of growing accustomed to things.

some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.

The comic effect of the satire is derived from the simultaneous presence, in the reader's mind, of the social reality with which he is familiar, and of its reflections in the distorting mirror of the satirist. It focuses attention on abuses and deformities in society of which, blunted by habit, we were no longer aware; it makes us suddenly discover the absurdity of the familiar and the familiarity of the absurd.

human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they could get used to.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

We favor associations that are familiar. We have a bias for new knowledge that readily maps to existing knowledge; things that fit with our expectations and biases don't challenge us to accommodate new information.

I guess what I'm saying is that this all feels very familiar. But it's not mine to be familiar about. I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it's peaceful outside, and you're seeing things move, and you don't want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have been heard by other people.

One day he just found himself opening the door, allowing the inevitable. The world came in and filled the room. It seemed so familiar with everything.

You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There's too much wonder, that's all. It's everywhere.

The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.