“New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.”

“… I am a New York designer and the things are made in New York…”

“And their love life got better with time. Familiarity bred excitement. They loved discovering those little things, the touch, that made the other respond with a quiver or a sigh, and, in turn, having the discovery made.”

“They are trained to combine familiar elements into new forms.”

“You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like 'Finnegans Wake' and Picasso.”

“Spring in the world!
And all things are made new!”

“are the familiar translations and rotations… made in proving the theorems of Euclid.”

“Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.”

“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.”

“And Chaucer, with his infantine
Familiar clasp of things divine.”