Quotes of: Familiarity-breeds Keyword

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce

A good story feels both surprising and inevitable, fresh and familiar.

Adam Johnson

In Israel, generally speaking, politics is much more familiar than any other place. We all know each other.

Ehud Barak

I usually don't have to do a lot of research in my work, as I'm writing about something I'm already familiar with.

Amy Bloom

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

Tony Shalhoub

Most people aren't familiar enough with what actually goes on in professional wrestling to know just how badly women are treated in WWE narratives.

Jackson Katz

Something amazing happens when the rest of the world is sleeping. I am glued to my chair. I forget that I ever wanted to do anything but write. The crowded city, the crowded apartment, and the crowded calendar suddenly seem spacious. Three or four ho...

At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

Faith

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Hausfrau

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

Innocent Blood

Are you familiar with that play? In fact, we're almost living it!

Once Upon a Crime

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

Terence McKenna

I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'

Steve Carell

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

Karen Thompson Walker

Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.

Gavin Newsom

London is my home... I know what's right and wrong here, and it's nice to have somewhere familiar to go back to.

Jude Law

It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.

Kerry King

You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

Eliot Ness

Conquering America for a U.K. artist is incredible because that's what everybody wants and dreams about. The accomplishment is dominating a market which you aren't familiar with.

Rita Ora

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 a great deal of other music.

Peter Maxwell Davies