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Quotes About Familiarity

It was very important to establish a sound, so that people heard a record on the radio and knew immediately that it was you.
~ Frankie Valli
People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'
~ Jack O'Brien
In almost the same way you know what your grandmother looks and sounds like, you know what Bruce Willis looks and sounds like.
~ Rian Johnson
I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.
~ Brenda Perlin
..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...
~ Ellen Sussman, French Lessons
You're like a song I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew untill I heard it again
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
The time has come. I know you, and now you will know me. Ever Yours.
~ Kelly Moran, Exposure
Every time I converse with you, I feel closer to home
~ Evy Michaels
This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.
~ Jael McHenry
Because sooner or later, all kinds of love - crazy love, wild love- fade into the same thing. The love becomes old and predictable -safe.
~ Lang Leav, Sad Girls
We think we've seen it all before, we think we know it all by heart.
~ Luanne Rice, Silver Bells
Sometimes we meet someone and feel like we have known them all our lives.
~ Avijeet Das
repeated serial exposure.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you—only when it doesn't.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.
~ Nathaniel Branden
I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
What's that expression? The devil you know is better than the one you don't?
~ Neal Shusterman
what makes it funny to people is that it's a gross distortion of something very familiar. For
~ Neal Shusterman
The devil you know is better than the one you don't.
~ Neal Shusterman
Podemos apostar con total confianza que, en pocos años, los dibujos del señor G. se convertirán en archivos preciosos de la vida civilizada. Los curiosos buscarán sus obras tanto como las de los Debucourt, los Moreau, los Saint-Aubin, los Carle Vernet, los Lami, los Devéria, los Gavarni, y las de todos los artistas exquisitos que, pese a haber pintado solo lo familiar y lo bonito, a su manera no dejan de ser historiadores serios.
~ Charles Baudelaire
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
~ Charles Bukowski
There's nothing unusual about love.
~ Charles Bukowski
tienes la muerte cerca igual que una amante, más cerca, la conoces como la palma de tu mano como esa mancha en la pared como el nombre de tu hija.
~ Charles Bukowski