Quotes About Familiarity

Because I look like Everyman on some level, I would say I get recognized once or twice a day.

I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.

I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather than things that surprise you.

I'm still quite small-minded and small-town, and people look at me like, "You're too famous to remember me." I want to give them a tap on the shoulder and thank them.

People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds blown. There is an insatiable appetite for affirmation.

The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; you eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness. I had to force myself to look harder and try to see beyond the concept of library that was so latent in my brain.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; your eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness.

Although my life was filled with chaos, it was familiar chaos, which gave me the feeling that I had some control over it. This was an illusion. —ANONYMOUS

I loved their home. Everything smelled older, worn but safe; the food aroma had baked itself into the furniture.

Parlare con lui m'infondeva una piacevole sensazione di familiarità, come accade con certi personaggi secondari della nostra infanzia: il gestore del negozio di fumetti, il venditore di caramelle... nonostante il tempo trascorso questi individui sono incapaci di considerarci come gli strani adulti che siamo diventati, e continuano invece a guardarci come i bambini che non abbiamo mai smesso di essere.

All was perfectly scaled to the human body and, in that, conducive to a sense of safety, of being at home in a known world.

But he didn't seem surprised to see her. 'Hey.' 'Hey, yourself.' Okay, that was stupid. Her grandmother used to say Hey, yourself. Great, she was turning into her grandmother at the most inopportune time. She didn't want to sound like a well-adjusted sixty-year-old.

Smells like home.

Invest in the known versus the unknown.

Generally, the biopics are made on the personalities about whom much is not known. But if someone who is already popular and everyone knows about his life then I don't see a point in making a biopic on his life unless you are telling something new about that person.

There is something special about breakfast TV in that people feel like they really know you.

About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'

People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before.

Pennsylvania couldn't be prouder of our native son, Joe Biden from Scranton. No one knows us better than Joe.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever.

The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.