I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
“It's not the changes that will break your heart; it's that tug of familiarity.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is strange that what seems at first alien becomes second nature in the blink of an eye.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The goal of comfort is at the self-same time the abandonment of great accomplishments.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV! — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
“ We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from familiarity.” — Raymond Radiguet Copy Share Image
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Though some choices may slow our journey, every path we take gives us more familiarity with how our actions affect the world… — Matthew Underwood Copy Share Image
Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention. — Laurence Steinberg Copy Share Image
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
As you do with any band you're in, you get to know everyone too well all too soon. When you're crammed into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain… — David Knopfler Copy Share Image
The sky grew darker and the moon rose higher as the evening wore on. and without either or them being conscious of… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life. — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
...There is a great need of more familiarity with the Scriptures and their teaching in order that we may be crushed to… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
What's comfortable to me is familiarity. Comfort has nothing to do with the size of the garment. I do find something quite… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“But the more familiar one becomes with any religious system, while yet the conscience and will are unawakened and obedience has not… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I wondered how long it took for a baby to become yours, for familiarity to set in. Maybe as long as it… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
A strip club is one of the few places where two groups voluntarily come together who have such precipitous contrasts in net… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping homeliness entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all sentiment is coarsely manufactured and advertised… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Potter is mocked by a faculty member for the idea that there is evil in the world from which even children need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you are forced to confront your fears on a daily basis, they disintegrate, like illusions when viewed up close. Maybe being… — Deborah Feldman Copy Share Image
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Suppose one who had always continued blind be told by his guide that after he has advanced so many steps he shall… — David Berman Copy Share Image
Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity… — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
“I talked about places, about the ways that we often talk about love of place, by which we mean our love for… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever. — SonReal Copy Share Image
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood. — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Living in England has no such excuse: These are my customs and establishments. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Familiarity, not survival, is the strongest drive in human beings.” — Jill Conner Browne Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the intensest hatreds — Antoine Rivarol Copy Share Image
One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.” — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration — Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde Copy Share Image
