Familiarity Quotes

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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

Familiarity breeds contempt.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity.

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian would have left little more than lipstick stains in their passing had it not been for the sex videos that lofted them into reality-TV notoriety. Once notoriety has warmed into familiarity, celebrity itself becomes one big 'Brady Bunch' reunion, or a therapy session with Dr. Drew.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

This familiarity with a respected physician and my appreciation of his work, or the tragedy I experienced with the long, tormented agony and death of my mother might have influenced me in wanting to study medicine. It was not the case.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him.

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement.

I think early on I knew what I was going to do and it was based a lot on familiarity but it was also because I didn't have a lot of skills. There was nothing I wanted t be. I didn't want to be a doctor. I wanted to be in show business.