Quotes About Familiarity

Strangers, the Blue Man said, are just family you have yet to come to know.

Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story.

Yes, we have acquired a certain familiarity with the recent history of our surroundings, and that—in my humble opinion—allows us to put the present into much better perspective.

for the pair themselves their closeness carried both a spark of the exotic and the comfort of familiarity, as many couplings do, when they first begin.

Houses are entirely different when you know them well, she thought, and on first acquaintance even more different from their real selves, more deceptive about their real character than human beings.

those whom we did not know think they know us now.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.

Io, Bologna, non l'ho mai vista. Ma la conosco bene, anche se probabilmente è una città tutta mia. È una città grande: almeno tre ore.

Nichts überrascht und erschreckt mehr als das, was man schon weiß.

Sé que me esperarás y sé que te reconoceré entre la gente, como te reconocería aunque hubiesen pasado mil años. Lo sé desde hace tiempo

Pasamos la vida como dos extraños que se han visto todos los días y se saludan por cortesía.

Despite myself I was beginning to get used to Isabella's company, to her jibes and to the light she had brought into that house. If things continued this way, my worst fears were going to come true and we'd end up being friends.

Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like the alone. That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers forever.

I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.

It's always good to be back in Salt Lake City.

I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar to me. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

Innovating something that is familiar. That's the general approach, and that's what I want to do with the melody as well. It should ring true - you should like every melody sequence without knowing what's happening next.

If humanity was still in the feral state, we wouldn't have any need for these huge conurbations that we have now, that have turned us into a different bunch all together. In the feral state we would be much more secure, much more familiar with each other, much more mentally well-balanced.

Samuel Eto'o I know well. We see each other often; we send each other messages, and we call each other. It's good.

I know Gov. Christie. We've met a couple of times.

Colin Cowherd? I never met him; I don't know him.

Especially at Indian Wells, Miami, the hard courts are what I grew up on, so I'm probably most used to it.