Quotes About Familiarity

He ached with weariness, but it became part of him; he scarcely noticed now that he was weary, he might always have been thus, it was so familiar to him.

It's exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you've had twenty or thirty years. It's like seeing an old friend.

It was the scent of my mother and it couldn't be broken down into parts.

only a woman can truly welcome a man back home, wash his feet, and fix his plate.

The familiar was far away, while the bizarre was close at hand.

Ciò che doveva risultare familiare era remoto, e quel che avrebbe dovuto essere estraneo sembrava invece a portata di mano.

Carl had been caught by surprise: he could recognize a face that smiled regularly, or a face that frowned regularly, even if it were unlined. He was curious as to how her face had developed such a close familiarity with so many expressions, and yet normally revealed nothing.

If there's one thing special about me, it's that I seem familiar. People feel like I live next door.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl.

The more time you spend with somebody, the more your relationship grows.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

We never get sick of each other. That's how sick we are.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

Psychologists call this habituation, economists call it declining marginal utility, and the rest of us call it marriage.

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

You could get used to anything. You got used to it and then time raced by, and before you knew it, time was up. He

Aluminum occupies nearly ten percent of Earth's crust yet was unknown to the ancients and unfamiliar to our great-grandparents. The element was not isolated and identified until 1827 and did not enter common household use until the late 1960s, when tin cans and tin foil yielded to aluminum cans and, of course, aluminum foil. (I'd bet most old people you know still call the stuff tin foil.)

Personally, I am quite comfortable with chemicals. My favorite stars, as well as my best friends, are all made of them.

and you just keep saying, uh-huh, uh-huh, yeah, because you've heard all this before, you've already been where he's been, because he's telling you about a town you know like the back of your hand.

Men intrinsically do not trust new things that they have not experienced themselves.

It was funny that you know someone for years but still discover something you never noticed before.