Quotes About Familiarity

I always think that the most delightful thing about traveling is to always be running into Americans and to always feel at home.

I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

Most of the meetings I get are in London, and in terms of travelling, I was getting so used to the Virgin train, I knew most of the staff by name.

Don't fool with machines you're not familiar with - stick with the treadmill and elliptical.

I feel I've come home at the Treasury.

People in Andhra Pradesh treat me like a girl next door after 'Ala Modalaindi.' I feel at home here.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

I'll tell you, I've never particularly been a 'Trek' person. I feel about 'Trek' the way one feels about known, vaguely liked, but rather distant members of one's family.

When someone is in our tribe, I think it's particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we're used to their facial features.

History tended to repeat itself. Why should her past be any different?

Imagination is highly suspect. Reality is what is beautiful. But we are blind to it because it is familiar.

Push me past my limit all you want. It's territory I know well.

He's okay—I guess the murderers you know are better than the ones you don't").

Everyone in the valleys knew me and because of that, so many people used my name in the valleys that there must have been at least a hundred times a night that the name 'Malcolm Price' was used.

Strange how a land untraveled can look so familiar" Mappo blinked, the memories scattered by the sound of that familiar soft voice. He glanced up at Icarium. "Stranger still how the mind's eye can travel so far and so fast, yet return in an instant" The Jhag smiled. "With that eye you might explore the entire world" "With that eye you might escape it".

What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite comfortable and charming in a too-narrow shoulder, a sleeve that's too short or too long, a pant that's too high or too low, hems that are trod on.

I like a messy hotel room. It's a little slice of home.

There is something in the micro-gestures in Australia that I just understand. It's something I grew up with - how people interact, the slight differences in language and gestures, that I just understand and it puts me at ease.

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause.

I think there's a danger of becoming too familiar with things, isn't there? That you kind of, when you're used to seeing the same things every day, you see those things come what may, and you don't see maybe the interesting things just slightly out of view behind them.

Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world around us, giving us more opportunities to learn how to help ourselves and others.

Hollywood is a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.

There are aspects of small town life that I really like - the routine nature of it, the idea of people knowing you and your likes and dislikes.

I prefer a small town where everybody knows everybody.