Quotes About Familiarity

It's the look two odd socks give when they recognise each other in the wild.

La experiencia común, en los siglos precedentes, era la sorpresa de un extranjero en la ciudad: un rostro desconocido. ¿De dónde viene, qué viene a hacer aquí? Pero hoy en día el anonimato es la norma. Lo sorprendente es reconocer a alguien.

I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.

Today it's just "the Sun." Familiarity is the enemy of awe, and for the most part people walk the busy streets with no upward glance. In fact, one of the common bits of advice about the Sun is that we shouldn't look at it.

Home never appears to us so beautiful as when we are remote from it.

Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.

They walked in the comfortable silence of two men who had known each other a long time and very well.

All canonical writing possesses the quality of making you feel strangeness at home.

Mr. Fred shook hands with her, said he was glad to see her, drew out a wet Coke from the machine, wiped it on his apron, and gave it to her. This is one good thing about life that never changes, she thought. As long as he lived, as long as she returned, Mr. Fred would be here with his...simple welcome. What was that? Alice? Brer Rabbit? It was Mole. Mole, when he returned from some long journey, desperately tired, had found the familiar waiting for him with its simple welcome.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

it occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over.

The library was like a second home. Or maybe more like a real home, more than the place I lived in. By going every day I got to know all the lady librarians who worked there. They knew my name and always said hi. I was painfully shy, though, and could barely reply.

He'd only seen photos of her, but felt a wave of nostalgia like he was meeting a long-?lost friend.

there is simply nothing more comforting than the smell of one's own bed.

I don't think Jack Nicholson has ever called me Stephen. He's like, 'Hey, Dorff. How are ya?'

Oh, yeah, I've seen 'Seinfeld' 1,000 times.

I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.

One of the benefits to television is that you're with these characters for years, you know them so well.

After you've lived with somebody for 11 years, what's a guy in a robe reading from a book going to change?

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

I think that T.V. shows are more like working at a home. You know you're going to the same place every day, working with the same people, the same cast and crew. You're in a dressing room instead of a trailer, so I think that that's more of a normal sort of lifestyle.

It's much easier to come back as a recurring character. Because you already know his traits and who he is and what he's about.

A father knows his children, and he knows them all by name.