Quotes About Familiarity

New Zealand - it's very tight-knit, and everyone knows each other.

Like, my whole life I've been right here in this zip code, 90059. Regardless of wherever I go I always end up in the same spot.

I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

I never do anything out of my comfort zone.

I love Irvine. That's my 'hood. I went to USC and used to come home every weekend. It's in my comfort zone.

The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

When you are accustomed to anything, you are estranged from it.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them," A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house."

A lot of performance is based on confidence, knowing what you're doing, and being familiar, and not thinking too much and trying to play at confident game speed.

When NBC switched the series in September to Tuesday nights opposite 'Maude' it died. 'Bonanza' had become too familiar with a Sunday audience. Tuesday just wasn't the day for it.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

It depends on the material. Sometimes I sound like him, sometimes not. There are certain tunes we do that are so familiar to the audience that to perform them without making them sound like Frank Sinatra would be wrong.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

I'm drawn to scenes in movies where you just see characters turning off lights in a room or putting the groceries away; it's like, 'I understand that.' We all have to get ready for bed, and we all do it in a different way, and yet it's all strangely familiar and strangely human.

I grew up on sets, because both my mom and dad were commercial and TV actors, so I've always felt very comfortable in that world.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

To be scrupulously honest, I only met Noel Coward twice in my life, and then briefly, but I heard so much about him at home when I was growing up that I always felt I knew him well.