For years now I have heard the word "wait." It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did… — Edwin Morris Copy Share Image
“And when I look into his eyes there’s a feeling of something I can only describe as familiarity, a sense of safety.… — Rebecca James Copy Share Image
No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world.… — Ivan Sutherland Copy Share Image
How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
“His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Thrillers rely on certain archetypes and our familiarity with them is quietly driving all of the tension. So it becomes an interesting… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a deification inverted.… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You are playing a character obviously, and everything you are saying is filtered through that person. It is not you that is… — Anna-Louise Plowman Copy Share Image
Fathers have a special excitement about them that babies find intriguing. At this time in his life an infant counts on his… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
There is this whole level of communication that I think our generation and younger is used to that does have this weird… — Duncan Jones 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
“What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and… — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
“We move through our days with the comfort of familiarity, waking at the same time each morning and almost always the same… — Joe Eck Copy Share Image
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else-I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony. — Jennifer Tilly Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do.… — Samuel L. Jackson 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
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk without loss of esteem — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
People don't want novelty - they want the reassurance of familiarity. No-one wants to be challenged, no-one wants to have their minds… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
“You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“The single greatest threat to human progress isn’t a lack of original ideas; it’s our obsession with familiarity — with status quo thinking.” — Jen Fraser Copy Share Image
A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“Familiarity is not the same as knowledge. But sometimes it's the best we can hope for. We can only love or hate… — Linden MacIntyre Copy Share Image
“It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was...not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity.… — Mhairi McFarlane Copy Share Image
Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities. — Feist Copy Share Image
You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
When he kissed me, his lips soft and careful, it was all the thrill of our first kiss and all the practiced… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
“There's a difference between fear and lack of familiarity. Anything one does for the first time can be daunting." ~Gwendolyn Cassidy~” — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
