Quotes About Familiarity

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name. And they're always glad you came. You wanna go where people know, your troubles are all the same. You wanna go where everybody knows your name.

Bio je to zbunjuju?i osje?aj. Kad do?eš u novu sredinu pa se osjetiš okružen poznatim jezikom kao toplim kaputom, to ti daje osje?aj sigurnosti, zaštite.

Why treat the people closest to you like strangers?

When you bring puppies home, it can take a few days before they feel comfortable enough to be themselves. The move from the breeder to your house is emotionally trying and it makes them exhausted and super docile. When they get comfy with you and their surroundings, they just become normal puppies, and everything that goes with that.

You can be in love with someone you hardly know, all romance and rapture and starry eyes.... But you can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you have lived with them and shared experience... you have got to share living before you can find love.

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.

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

To recognize someone, you had to first know them.

The most familiar precepts are not always the truest.

Cliche is Truth's most loyal friend...

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

The very triteness of it seemed to ensure its likelihood.

Time had eroded the bond between them. They were strangers who shared the same story.

Somebody once said that a person's favorite restaurant is where they know you. That might be true. They knew me at Dan Tana's and I knew them: Christian at the door, Arturo at the table, Mike behind the bar. But that didn't obscure the fact that the kitschy Italian joint with checkered tablecloths served up the best New York strip in the city. I liked the place because they knew me, but I liked the steak even better.

thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.

She'll be willing to meet someone who can hold her interest for more than a few months, and that guy will teach her about domestic deepenings, the modest reliable thrill of the familiar, which as almost everyone but Liz knows has been the way of human happiness since humanity was born.

Ma è un fatto provato, per quanto molto strano, che anche la cosa più orribile perde parte del suo orrore quando si ripete continuamente.

Una cosa rara es que el horror pierde su espanto cuando se repite mucho.

Aber es ist eine seltsame Tatsache, dass das Entsetzliche seine Schrecken verliert, wenn es sich immer wiederholt.

Novelty in creative endeavors usually arises from routine -- you have to be familiar with something before you know what is novel.

The more you get to know someone, the more there is to dislike. If you get to know them well enough, you hate them.

As disorienting as The Final Programme was, however, its relentless novelty was undercut by a peculiar familiarity: Cornelius's exploits mirrored those of Elric of Melniboné almost exactly, blow for blow. Even a minor character like the Melnibonéan servant Tanglebones could turn up anagrammatized as the Cornelius family's retainer John Gnatbeelson.

Welcome to my neck of the woods. I love that phrase. As if it were part of a body.

If I call you playing my music, you'll be like, 'Oh, that's Gunna.' Even on a song you ain't heard, you're gonna know my voice for singing. But if I call you on the phone - 'What's up? Are we still doing the interview today?' - you're not gonna know who this is.