Alexander Chase Quotes

We're all shocked by new ideas, and we're less shocked when we hear them again. And less shocked when we hear them a third time.

Here's the deal: the extraordinary becomes ordinary really quickly. One minute, everything is new and amazing, the next it's expected.

I'm around my father all of the time, so the things that people see as distracting are things I've seen for years on a daily basis. It's second nature to me.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.

That's the problem, we do get used to things.

Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

If you see somebody running down the street naked every single day, you stop looking up.

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Do you come here often?

You see one eviction, and you're overcome, but then there's another one and another one and another one.

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

I don't get hyped when I see stars now because it's like second nature to me.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

Life is a continuous cycle of once-terrifying things becoming normal.

You see mock death in movies every day, but when it really happens, you're not used to it. Most things in life, you get better the more that you do them, but this is one of those things you don't really want to get any better at.

People always get used to beauty though.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.