Quotes About Familiarity

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

Oh I've seen Jude Law a couple of times, with his kids in tow, looking stressed. But I've lived in Primrose Hill for 20 years.

I can't imagine anybody who showed up at Firestone for the first time who felt like they knew it better than I did. For me to travel to Akron the first time, 'Oh, my gosh, I can't wait, I know every hole on this golf course. I know the big water tower with the Firestone ball on top, I grew up with this. Here it is! It's real!'

One thing about living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.

I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

I know what I write about seems exotic to a lot of people, but not for me. I pulled up to an old trading post and saw a few elderly Navajos sitting on a bench. I felt right at home.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Fighting at home doesn't add any pressure - they call it "home-field advantage" for good reason. I don't have to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed the night before the fight.

There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home.

Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far, far away-what you last met at home.

But the trees seemed to know me. They whispered among themselves and beckoned me nearer.

During difficult economic times, consumers gravitate toward the brands they know, the brands they love and trust.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Familiarity breeds contempt and predictability breeds boredom.

There was an intimate connection between them, as if they'd known each other always. They were not strangers; they'd merely never met before.