Becomes Quote by Robert Sapolsky

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

— Mary Oliver

Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

— Andy Rooney

I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine trees and plums depicted…

— Zhang Xiaogang

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

— Rene Magritte

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

— Margaret Atwood

I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you…

— Ben Howard

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

“Once I leave — once I start the car or catch the bus to the airport, by which the voyage is initiated — my…

— Evan Rail

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem…

— Jessica Sorensen

“The old man has always believed in the mutability of things; has known that no matter how solid the ground beneath your feet may…

— Salman Rushdie

I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people,…

— Matthew Tobin Anderson

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

— Bill Bryson