Familiarity Quotes

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might be part of the reason people turned away from us within this country, because familiarity breeds contempt.

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.

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.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.

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.

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.

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

That Hollywood thing, where everybody hugs and kisses everybody else - I always stiffen. It's an assumed familiarity. It's phony.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 breeds contempt.

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.

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.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

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.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

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