For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
“Familiarity has a way of filing the sharp edges off our feelings for other people. You'll see.” — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
“Familiarity, and a few dozen cheap flyballs off the Monster, breed contempt.” — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul. — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We all have morning rituals that give us the comfort of familiarity even if our days are unknowns.” — Maria Alexandra Vettese Copy Share Image
“We may believe we are seeking happiness in love, but what we are really after is familiarity.” — The School of Life Copy Share Image
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, with a TV show, people are looking for a certain amount of familiarity. You don't want to pull… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
“The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We don't “crave” animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity. — Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Copy Share Image
A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“I don't think God puts us on this earth so we can be afraid of stepping into the unknown. Isn't tomorrow an… — Cindy Woodsmall Copy Share Image
“Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.” — Laurie Notaro Copy Share Image
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Familiarity breeds attempt. Time wounds all heels. I went down on the Lower East Side today and saw all those Old Testament… — Goodman Ace Copy Share Image
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most,… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
It's just a blessing. Artists search and search for songs that will connect for a new artist because the familiarity is so… — Rodney Atkins Copy Share Image
I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
It seems like studios and networks only greenlight stuff that has familiarity to them. If you can be like, 'Oh, it's 'Workaholics,'… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Familiarity provides us with a sense of security. We repeat the same old patterns because we know what the outcome will be.… — Charles Duncan Copy Share Image
“What is a country for someone who is neither a soldier nor a rabid patriot? A place of subtle affinities, an implicit… — Gil Courtemanche Copy Share Image
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed.… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
