#familiar

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#decays #familiar #growing #immediately #object

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa. ↗

— Carol Alt

#alaska #amount #because #certain #comes

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. ↗

— Mary Austin

#canons #certain #clear #fame #familiar

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

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#difficult #familiar #feel #german #i

All objects lose by too familiar a view. ↗

— John Dryden

#lose #objects #too #view

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#been #better #difficulty #effect #experience

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.' ↗

— Faith Evans

#bad #bad boy #big #biggie #both

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#familiar #safe #something #stereotyped #very