John McCain Quotes

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

When I'm home, I go back to the same routine that I've had since I was a kid.

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.

It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.

We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed.

I like things that I feel comfortable in.

Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

Most people like to hear sounds they are used to.

I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to return to the same spots. I enjoy the familiarity.

The audiobooks I buy are never first-time reads - only rereadings of books I know well that I find intoxicating.

I like routine.

I love coming back to Edinburgh. It's nice to spend real time here.

I've been doing 'How I Met Your Mother' for so long, and it's been so great, and I just feel like it's second nature at this point.

When I was a kid, all I knew was that I felt more comfortable sitting in one chair than in another. And now I realize it was because one chair was older. I still respond directly to the age of things.

Fabulous is familiarity.

I'm used to the Journey routine now.

It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.