(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them. — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
I like familiarity. In me it does not bring contempt-only more familiarity. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they… — Mark Lawson Copy Share Image
There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil… — Andy Grove Copy Share Image
The real tough thing is working with actors. I'm a designer and used to working with artists, so there is some familiarity… — Rick Heinrichs Copy Share Image
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and… — Ken Grimwood Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“Familiarity may breed contempt; but perhaps it would be more truthful to say that familiarity breeds blindness” — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Is everyone looking for me?" She shook her head, pulling the robe closer. Suddenly she wanted to be covered up in front… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I like filmmakers that try to touch upon the metaphysical, the things that are behind all this, that you can't actually physically… — Mike Cahill Copy Share Image
Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
