Familiarity Quotes - Page 5

• Familiar things are a comfort to us all.

  Andy Rooney

  Comfort, Familiar, Familiar Things

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• The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not destructive. It is the perfect adaptation, through experience and familiarity, of movement to place; it obeys the natural contours; such obstacles as it meets it goes around.

  Wendell Berry

  Differences, Perfect, Movement

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.12, Counterpoint

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• Since we're keeping it primal, you smell good," he observed. "It's called a shower...," I began automatically, then trailed off. My memory snagged, taken aback by a compelling and forceful sense of undue familiarity. "Soap, shampoo, hot water," I added, almost as an afterthought. "Naked. I know the drill," Jev said, something unreadeble passing over his eyes.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Memories, Taken, Eye

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Besides, I'd seen a really nice pair of shoes yesterday in the mall and I wanted them for my own. I can't describe the feeling of immediate familiarity that rushed between us. The moment I clapped eyes on them I felt like I already owned them. I could only suppose that we were together in a former life. That they were my shoes when I was a serving maid in medieval Britain or when I was a princess in ancient Egypt. Or perhaps they were the princess and I was the shoes. Who's to know? Either way I knew that we were meant to be together.

  Marian Keyes

  Nice, Princess, Eye

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• Proximity bred familiarity, and familiarity bred comfort.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Comfort, Proximity

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.70, Hachette UK

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• I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity.

  Gertrude Stein

  Doe, Contempt

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• Younger teachers are definitely more likely to have worked at charter schools as opposed to have just heard of them. Charter schools explicitly look, often, to hire younger people. I've even talked to people who didn't necessarily go into teaching thinking they wanted to work at a charter school or even may have been considered critics of the charter school movement, and found that it was the only way for them to get their foot in the door. So young people just have much more familiarity with the concept.

  Dana Goldstein

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other contexts, so as to develop a sense of the structure, not just familiarity with a particular tour through the structure.

  William Thurston

  Teaching, Math, Ideas

  William P. Thurston (2014). “Three-Dimensional Geometry and Topology, Volume 1”, p.9, Princeton University Press

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• Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.

  Zachary Quinto

  Real, Angel, Years

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• You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person.  It is not you that is saying it.  It is filtered through a character that doesn’t have your own set of values - so it is not really odd.  Inevitably we help each other with a lot of line-learning.  Plus there is a familiarity which is quite nice.  We have done TV together before.

  Anna-Louise Plowman

  Nice, Character, Together

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• The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we call our common sense, our practical point of view. Actually, these are names for an all-absorbing familiarity with things as they are. . . . Thus it happens that when the times become unhinged, it is the practical people who are caught unaware . . . still clinging to things that no longer exist.

  Eric Hoffer

  Views, Names, People

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• He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings ... He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

  Ken Grimwood

  Laughter, Play, Dating

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• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

  Bell Hooks

  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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• When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

  George Iles

  Education, Truth, Science

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• Even the worst feeling, with time and familiarity, became tolerable.

  Caragh M. O'Brien

  Feelings, Worst, Tolerable

  Caragh M. O'Brien (2011). “Birthmarked”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

  David Knopfler

  Spiritual, Magic, Contemplation

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• In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

  Paul Lazarsfeld

  Political, Politics, Vote

  The English Digest, Vol. 57, p. 34, 1958.

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• It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

  George Gissing

  Time, Children, Stress

  George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.248, The Floating Press

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• A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Technology, Glasses, Digital Revolution

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• Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Horse, Laughter, Fun

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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• 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.

  Ronald Reagan

  Morning, Jobs, Office

  Ronald Reagan (1990). “An American Life”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Everyday Objects, Everyday

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• I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.

  Sara Zarr

  Writing, Example, Littles

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• With everything that you can imagine at our fingertips, many of the social interactions that help tie people together in a community have faded away. Are communities traditionally built on relationships, trust and familiarity a thing of the past?

  Dean Ornish

  Past, Ties, People

  "Can Online Communities Be Healing?" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 19, 2013.

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• 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.

  Mark Lawrence

  Eye, Castles, Pay

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