Quotes of: Acquaintance Keyword

Hans: Mrs. McClane. How nice to make your acquaintance.

Die Hard

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hearts know nothing of time-not age or length of acquaintance. They know only what they need.

Driven

We need to get acquainted with mediocrity to notice greatness.

Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

Me and Don Henley are fast acquaintances now, or something. He actually got on stage and sang with me.

Mojo Nixon

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

Maria Monk

Even in comedy it's important to get your body acquainted with what you're going to do.

Noureen DeWulf

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Lord Byron

Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

Idina Menzel

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.

Garth Hudson

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

James Weldon Johnson

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Samuel Johnson

With some we’re certain our hearts must’ve been acquainted long before we have ever met them.

Shakieb Orgunwall

I feel like movie stars don't have many friends at all. They have acquaintances.

Milla Jovovich

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Ambrose Bierce

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

Ian Somerhalder

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

E. W. Howe