top of page
"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Familiarity quotes

"When I see him, his frame filling the doorway, I do not feel passion, excitement. I can't remember if I ever have. He makes me feel comfortable, like a favorite pair of shoes."

"I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness."

"You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties."

"When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable."

"At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week."

"Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity."

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
Explore more quotes by Brian Greene

"If the theory turns out to be right, that will be tremendously thick and tasty icing on the cake."

"Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers."

"We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?"

"I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe."

"How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above?"

"The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers."

"A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision."

"Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer."
bottom of page