Quotes About Familiarity

She knew him. Somehow. And wasn't that quite marvelous?

Part of traveling over years means coming back to the same place and knowing it for the first time.

Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.

I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women.

Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.

An' right here I want to remark,' Bill went on, 'that that animal's familiarity with camp-fires is suspicious an' immoral.' 'It knows for certain more'n a self-respectin' wolf ought to know,' Henry agreed

It's funny how despair can soon become an old companion

They knew his taxi better than they knew him, if you see what I mean. People always know the outside better than they know the inside.

We were a part of each other, flesh of each other's flesh-which meant that we so took each other for granted that we never thought of the flesh.

I've known him all my life and I hope I always know him.

I think that, to a lot of people, they don't like my brand of whatever I do. And I think that people - the ones that like me, at least - see me as their brother or their older uncle or their friend or their next door neighbour. I am the quintessential boy next door; I feel that way.

People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.

I find it slightly uncomfortable to see my face on a bus or a poster. I like just being known by my friends and family.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

I've never quite understood that feeling: that you arrive in a strange place, yet you want to have nothing but familiar experiences.

Watching familiar characters take unexpected turns is very appealing.

If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me.

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

As an angsty teenager and college student, I used to mock people who lived in gated communities, who were so afraid of the unfamiliar world they had to erect a physical boundary to keep it at bay. But now I wonder, aren't the boundaries we draw with Facebook just as secure as a man-made moat or an underpaid security guard manning a booth?

Sometimes there's something very comforting about a film unfolding more or less as you expect it to.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.