Quotes of: Familiarity Keyword

What I like about Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium is that it's an understated scent that's somehow familiar.

Edie Campbell

The intolerance of the Middle, and even later, Ages, is a fact all too familiar to every one.

Ethan A. Hitchcock

I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood.

Binyavanga Wainaina

During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.

Jean Piaget

Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

John Henry Newman

The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was very fortunate I had the right amount of time.

Eric Bana

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

Ryan Holmes

There's nothing I like better than talking to kids, just sharing the music with them. To relate to them, you need to play songs they're familiar with.

Jake Shimabukuro

Ironically, I grew up watching Indian movies as a kid in Russia. I am quite familiar with Bollywood. I grew up watching 'Disco Dancer;' I watched it some 20 times as a kid.

Jan Koum

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

You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

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