Familiarity Quotes

210 quotes by 185 authors

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. — Mark Twain
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it. — Vince Vaughn
I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because… — Christopher Walken
Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that… — James Wolcott
The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own… — Michel Foucault
I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames… — Dave Barry
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by… — C.S. Lewis
Only Esmeralda was not weeping. Instead she wore that wooden look that whites mistake for churlishenss or indifference. Woodrew knew it was neither. It was… — John le Carre
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,… — Jack Kerouac
If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue… — Oswald Chambers
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in… — Madeleine L'Engle
Familiarity breeds complacency. — Rick Warren
There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not… — Richard Dawkins
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name... — Jennifer Weiner
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave… — Stella Gibbons
Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. — Victor Hugo
Life and the world, or whatever we call that which we are and feel, is an astonishing thing. The mist of familiarity obscures from us… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that youâ€™re just as human as they are. Thatâ€™s when the madness sets in. They… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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