There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the…

Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour,…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Growing up in a family of gamblers, daredevils and practical jokers, I've learned a lot about timing and its first cousin, dumb luck, concepts…

— Toby Speed

“We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.”

— Jarod Kintz

“paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear”

— Eric Jerome Dickey

“We’re like rednecks then, zaydeh.” “What are you talking about? I was educated well. I know six languages. I manage the family investment portfolio.…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“This history sets forth the only true account of the adventures of a daring Tipperary man named Darby O’Gill among the Fairies of Sleive…

— Herminie Templeton Kavanagh

“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up.…

— Ray Bradbury

“You can not figure out love without figuring out death, too, but the effort it takes can knock the wind out of you. Love…

— Charles Baxter

Overdressing is the first cousin of trying too hard.

— Karen Karbo

“Creative exhaustion is first cousin to writer’s block. First off, I try to accept that when it hits, I am not wasting time, but…

— Sue Isle

“Marrying cousins was astoundingly common into the nineteenth century, and nowhere is this better illustrated than with the Darwins and their cousins the Wedgwoods…

— Bill Bryson

“One of the reasons for his drinking, Henry said, was John's mama used to make the whole family get down on their knees and…

— Ken Kesey

“With no other choice, I'd submitted to the will of our prophet and had married my nineteen-year-old first cousin.”

— Elissa Wall

“Who are you in love with?" I said then. For a minute Marco didn't say anything, he simply opened his mouth and breathed out…

— Sylvia Plath

But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the…

— Jerry Garcia