We derive our greatest pleasures not from novelty but from…

Too much familiarity breeds contempt.

— Vikrant Parsai

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…

— Campbell Scott

You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much about it…

— Monica Barbaro

I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives…

— Samuel L. Jackson

“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety. Like coming…

— Rebecca James

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form…

— Samuel Johnson

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days…

— George Gissing

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly

— Jen Knox

Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by.

— Winifred Kirkland

When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things…

— Brad Stevens

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

— Charles Lamb

Familiarity breeds contempt only when it breeds inattention.

— George Santayana

But while ignorance can make you insensitive, familiarity can also numb. Entering the second half-century of an information age, our cumulative knowledge has changed…

— Anna Quindlen