Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Mollie Marti

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Bill Bryson

I think competition is very important; it breeds many good things in a person.

Brian McBride

In 'War Party,' I play a quarter-breed Indian. It's a serious movie, but it's funny, too.

Kevin Dillon

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

Bruce Nash

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw

I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.

Davy Jones

Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

William Penn

Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

Every solution breeds new problems.

Arthur Bloch

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

The sentiments attributed to Christ are in the Old Testament. They were familiar in the Jewish schools and to all the Pharisees, long before the time of Christ, as they were familiar in all the civilizations of the earth — Egyptian, Babylonian, and...

The Sources of the Morality of the Gospels

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 balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also ...

Henry Petroski

I don't have time to celebrate accomplishments. When good things happen, it's great, and obviously I get excited inside. But soon I gotta do something else; I gotta keep doing more stuff. The whole world will never be familiar, so I'm constantly goin...

Clinton Sparks

I was a supporting character in other people's lives, which seemed right and familiar to me. I was also an outsider: English in the U.S., American in England, dogged yet comforted by that familiar feeling of alien-ness, which occupied that space wher...

Allegra Huston

Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord.

A Clash of Kings

I’m not in the torturing business, but I am in the monster-killing business.

Unique: A New Breed

Pretty much every plant and animal alive today is the result of eons of natural cross-breeding.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Be able to identify the most common breeds of dogs and cats on sight.

Marilyn vos Savant

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Ingrid Newkirk