Familiarity Quotes

210 Familiarity quotes by 185 unique authors

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost… — Pauly Shore
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity. — Jeff Kinney
I used to think you should keep on experimenting and seeing new things. But after seeing a lot of the world, I now tend to… — Louise Nurding
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a… — Paul Bloom
My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone… — Julianne Moore
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything. — Martin Freeman
Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They… — Henry Petroski
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face… — Anne Edwards
People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can… — Kenneth Williams
You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency. — Timothy White
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better… — Alex North
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept… — Henry Villard
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of… — Lynn Margulis
Familiarity brings contempt but rarity breeds admiration — Ogunsakin Ayobami Ayorinde
The wise wo/man knows there is something to be learned from everyone. S/He knows that know matter how bad or good said person has treated… — Isaiah Harden (Me)
To win the battle we must get to know our enemy; but if done with an open mind, familiarity may defuse hostility and the war… — Marrett Green
Too much familiarity breeds contempt. — Vikrant Parsai
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox
I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of… — Peter Maxwell Davies
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand. — Jason Zebehazy

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