Quotes of: Familiarity Keyword

Familiarity breeds contempt; distance breeds respect.

Nigerian

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and en...

Fred Rogers

The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Moby

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

William Bernbach

Familiarity is like the sea that kills the fisherman.

Ugandan

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

Mark Twain

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Mark Twain

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

Chaka Khan

...if you're an artist, you've submitted to authority...

A Familiar Rain

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me.

Denis McDonough

...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...

A Familiar Rain

...you can't be intimate unless you're sensitive...

A Familiar Rain

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

A Familiar Rain

...true love is my religion...

A Familiar Rain

Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.

Martin Freeman

...true authority is not based on control - it's based on truth...

A Familiar Rain

...The heart mourns people and places and returns to them in dreams...

A Familiar Rain

...love is suffering - that's the happy ending...

A Familiar Rain

...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...

A Familiar Rain

...authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer...

A Familiar Rain

...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...

A Familiar Rain