Quotes About Familiarity

I found myself in a place that was thorny, but because I was so used to being there, it bore out certain twisted sensations of comfort. It's a place called «alone».

What would she have? Coke, said Annie. And when she tasted the familiar drink, how much less scary the world was, and how much less frightening her task.

Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains.—Beautiful! I linger yet with Nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man; and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness, I learn'd the language of another world.

Familiarity obscures. It breeds instinct and not understanding.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

Familiarity is the father of acceptance.

Leadership is familiar, but not well understood.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

It is not in novelty but in habit that we find the greatest pleasure.

I hope you will excuse my being late. The person in this organization who gave me directions here has obviously heard me speak before.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

No, Groucho is not my real name. I am breaking it in for a friend.

The trodden path is the safest.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country.

Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Kod ljudi koji nam postanu bliski mi sve te pojedinosti prvog dodira sa njima obi?no zaboravljamo; izgleda nam kao da smo ih vazda znali i kao da su oduvek sa nama bili. Od svega toga u se?anju iskrsne ponekad samo neka nepovezana slika.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

I'm proud of you, and I love you, Blay said yet again, that old, familiar voice cutting through all of those years of rejection and judgement, giving him not just a rope of acceptance to hang onto, but a flesh-and-blood hand to lead him out of the darkness of his past... And into a future that didn't require lies or excises, because of what he was, and what they were, was both extraordinary--and nothing out of the ordinary. Love, after all, was universal.

Edward, they might know me. Some people

Rehv swooped down with his long arms and gathered her up against him, tucking her with vital care to his chest. Ducking his head to hers, his voice was deep and grave. I never thought I would see you again. As he shuddered, she lifted her hands up to his torso. After holding herself back for a moment...she embraced him as fully as he did her. You smell the same, she said rought, putting her nose right into the collar of his fine silk shirt. Oh...God, you smell the same.

But come on, like she hadn't seen every aisle in his grocery store already?

There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.