Quotes About Familiar

New York is my, you know, second hometown.

Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was part of 'Gotham.'

Horror will always be there, it always comes back, it's a familiar genre that some people, not everyone - it's sort of the cinema anchovies. You either like it or you don't.

Hosting is pretty natural to me, since I was doing it as a kid.

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would—and did—detest.

It's a rented house right along the Mississippi River, a house that screams Suburban Nouveau Riche, the kind of place I aspired to as a kid from my split-level, shag-carpet side of town. The kind of house that is immediately familiar: a generically grand, unchallenging, new, new, new house that my wife would-and did-detest. 'Should I remove my soul before I come inside?' Her first line upon arrival.

Some individuals have the courage to make it, even feel the need to do so; for them the quest is a necessity, not an option. Most people setting out on such journeys are never heard from again, but part of the romance of any field lies in keeping the dream alive, in not settling for what is familiar and comfortable.

The war had funneled men and women into familiar channels. Anton's girls were performing their impressions of what girls were supposed to be like.

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

you always seemed so relaxed and at home. It's like you've always been here.

The touch was exactly what the touch of a lover's hand should be: familiar, yet exciting as a whispered promise.

I played a ton of special teams at LSU. I'm familiar with it, I'm comfortable doing it.

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

but it doesn't feel crazy to us. It feels like what we do.

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

Touching him is familiar and unfamiliar. We have been here before. Also we have never been here before.

And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful- how the mind clings to the road it knows, rushing through crossroads, sticking like lint to the familiar.

There is nothing that requires more precision, and purity of expression, than to write in a familiar style,' as the great English essayist William Hazlitt put it nearly two hundred years ago. 'To write as anyone would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity...' To me these are the cardinal virtues of strong, convincing English prose.

I know, she said. She could. She was really irritating like that. Very, he agreed. There was a thoughtful sadness about him- one that seemed very familiar. I guess she did know what she was doing a little, she said. I got an uncle out of it, at least. Richard stopped pushing his folder and looked up. Yeah. He smiled. It's nice to have a niece, too.

He would always be like that, my grandfather, always searching for that new start, always running away from the familiar. By the time the family arrived in Hawaii, his character would have been fully formed, I think—the generosity and eagerness to please, the awkward mix of sophistication and provincialism, the rawness of emotion that could make him at once tactless and easily bruised.

Later, when I became more familiar with the narrower path to happiness to be found in television and the movies, I'd become troubled by questions.

Looking back, I realize I was doing what most of us tend to do when we're uncertain or floundering: We reach for what feels familiar, what we think we're good at.

You've been cursed with people's high expectations, he said, shaking my hand. Because it means they are also easily disappointed. It's something I'm familiar with. I fear it can be a trap. p351