Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up. — Karl Hyde Copy Share Image
“rising familiarity with a text and fluency in reading it can create an illusion of mastery.” — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
Though the familiar use of things about us take off our wonder, yet it cures not our ignorance. — John Locke Copy Share Image
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White Copy Share Image
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my… — Sarah Millican Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t bring myself to call him either “Bill,” which would signal friendly familiarity, or “Doctor Vogel,” which would imply respect.” — Frankie Bow Copy Share Image
I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera… — Alan Carr Copy Share Image
After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts,… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of… — Max Richter Copy Share Image
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices. — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
It is not enough simply to wish that love and compassion should increase in us. We need to make a sustained effort,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other… — William Thurston Copy Share Image
The well adjusted make poor prophets. A pleasant existence blinds us to the possibilities of drastic change. We cling to what we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The shepherds - simple souls - came to adore the Infant Savior. Mary rejoiced at seeing their homage and willing offerings they… — Peter Julian Eymard Copy Share Image
I think a good painting or a good work of art does many things it wants, I mean, maybe 15 or 20… — David Salle 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
“She says to me, but were we ever intimate? How intimate were we really? Sure, there were the ordinary familiarity-type things -… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“When you’re in love with two people, always choose the second. The fact that you are constantly thinking of the second person… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
To me, making a horror movie is about how you can present similar genre familiarities, but present them a little bit differently.… — Ti West Copy Share Image
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