#familiarity

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

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

#certain #contemplation #enter #every #every time

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. ↗

— Timothy White

#breeds #complacency #familiarity #familiarity breeds #kind

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

— Paul Lazarsfeld

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #politics #votes

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense. ↗

— Boris Spassky

#chess #enormous #familiarity #fischer #his

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#appeal #away #band #because #breeds

The familiar is by far the most beautiful. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#familiarity #intimacy #beauty

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#art

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. ↗

— Henry Villard

#come #details #did #familiarity #flattered

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love