Familiarity Quotes

Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.

I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.

It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].

I don't need exotic places to be stimulated. Out of familiarity comes nuance. The more you revisit a subject the more you're like to discover.

The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity with the personalities that come up, but actors are their own animal.

We also confuse trust with familiarity.

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Familiarity can blind too.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives them a sort of familiarity that other people don't have.

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

Familiarity reduces the greatness of things.

I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"

We're fascinated by animals because it's almost like having Martians living among us. We can see some familiarity in them, but they're entirely different creatures.

I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

Familiarity breeds sentiment before contempt.

A life that chooses not to grow is a life that died long before it ever lived.

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

The smell of home was indistinguishable from the smell of leaving home: each inhalation a mix of familiarity and fear.

If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room!

There is something particularly fascinating about seeing places you know in a piece of art - be that in a film, or a photograph, or a painting.

The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.

Miracles can only inhabit the reality of our awareness when we surrender our need for the familiar to our desire for the limitless.

When your friend becomes a king, treat him first as a king, then let him choose you as a friend. Acting otherwise is suicidal. Familiarity is evil.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....

When two persons are too close, they fall apart.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home — and my sanity depends on it.

Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

unfamiliar things least produces familiarity. Familiarity only gets closer to you when you open your doors to familiar things