Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.

Dave Barry

Wallace: Burrowing bounders! They must be breeding like... well, rabbits.

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

Don Yaeger

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

Alyssa Milano

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S....

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

I'm very familiar with Tyler Perry.

Chris Pine

Intense sunlight rained down on a half-submerged city. Waves crashed between buildings that stood like waterlogged tombstones. Skyscrapers of smashed glass and twisted rusting metal jutted from the churning swell as islands of broken dreams. A famili...

Blue Into The Rip

The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it is a form of contact with a known landscape. It is not...

The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

His lips are familiar. I know the shape of them, know how to make mine fit against them. His taste is familiar too. For all the illusions and colors and sweet smells... he has always tasted like skin. His breaths are shallow. I'm holding his life aga...

Sever

Just like our story, the original Christmas tales were stories of searching, not so much for the lost, as for the familiar. Mary and Joseph sought in Bethlehem- the home of their familial ancestry- a place to start their own family; the three kings f...

Finding Noel

Detective Remy Bressant: How well do you know "Cheese" Jean Baptiste? Helene McCready: Who? Nick Poole: Come on, sweetheart. "Cheese" Jean Baptiste. Helene McCready: Oh, sounds familiar. Detective Remy Bressant: No. It don't "sound familiar", Helene....

Gone Baby Gone

Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring.

Eugenics, the Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding

To breed a winner, let alone at Royal Ascot, is unbelievable. I've got four children and they all love the mother. We pat it most days and she's a lovely mare.

Michael Owen

I'm an evangelist for the idea of being ultrafit if you want to be the best of breed. Getting into world-class physical condition is one of the smartest moves you can make.

Robin S. Sharma

It is this dependency that became, and is, the breeding ground for abuses of power.

All About Love: New Visions

Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

Robert Graves

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

Simon Sinek

Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.

Susie Smith