Familiarity Quotes - Page 11

• but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

  David Nicholls

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.23, Hachette UK

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it.

  L. Frank Baum

  Awe, Great Things, Remove

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and sense of affection and commitment lay in shared collective analysis of social injustice as well as a vision for radical transformation"

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty

  Home, Commitment, Space

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• The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).

  Michel Foucault

  Thinking, Intelligent, Political Will

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• Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Names, Speak, Virtue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.42, e-artnow

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• My overall knowledge of football specifications, the overall process that happens on game day with the footballs is very limited. I would say that during the course of the game, I honestly never - it probably has happened on an incomplete pass or something - but I've never touched a game ball. It's not something I have any familiarity with on that.

  Bill Belichick

  Football, Games, Game Day

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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• Books never pall on me. They discourse with us, they take counsel with us, and are united to us by a certain living chatty familiarity. And not only does each book inspire the sense that it belongs to its readers, but it also suggests the name of others, and one begets the desire of the other.

  Petrarch

  Life, Book, Names

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• The more you're drowning in familiarity, the better the fun is. It requires less novelty to produce even more gratification. And it's something that didn't come from you. It was about the other thing - the thing you were experiencing, or the people you were with, or the mechanism you were operating, or whatever it might be.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, People, Might

  Source: app.longform.org

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• Like, the smells and the sights and the sounds. As an artist, you want to sort of be able to engage that and get that down in some way. This is - this is a type of familiarity but a type of radical difference at the same time.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Artist, Sight, Smell

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Familiarity with holy things can often engender blindness, and churches are, for all their merits, institutions that embody, perhaps more than most, the will to perpetuate themselves. In this process, they can easily lose sight of the purpose for which they came into being and, in so doing, frustrate the Spirit.

  Andrew Linzey

  Sight, Church, Merit

  Andrew Linzey (2013). “Why Animal Suffering Matters: Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics”, p.164, Oxford University Press

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• Familiarity leads to lack of Gratitude.

  Radhanath Swami

  Gratitude, Lack Of Gratitude

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

  Pauline Oliveros

  Piano, Sound, Different

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• We also confuse trust with familiarity.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Trust

  Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.55, Oxford University Press

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• The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together departs from that of the ordinary, dictionary-defined discourse. Familiarity creates a new language, an in-house language of intimacy that carries reference to the story the two lovers are weaving together and that cannot be readily understood by others.

  Alain de Botton

  Love, Two, People

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• You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Reason, Instinct, Seats

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

  Christopher Isherwood

  Morning, Differences, People

  Christopher Isherwood (1964). “A single man”

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• Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Vastness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the category of familiarity.

  Noam Chomsky

  Israel, Gaza Strip, Fit

  Noam Chomsky, Ilan PappŽ (2014). “Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians”, p.101, Haymarket Books

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• Adolescents sometimes say..."My friends listen to me, but my parents only hear me talk." Often they are right. Familiarity breeds inattention.

  Laurence Steinberg

  Parent, Inattention, Sometimes

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• That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Distance, Character, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.79

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• Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Dignity, Breeding, Ill

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Art, Gentleman, Ease

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• Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

  Gail Carriger

  Self, Extra Time, Trying

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it.

  William Gaddis

  Art, Creating, Feelings

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