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#familiar

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #familiar




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


#common #familiar #ideas #men #more

Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.


James Wolcott


#comedy #defective #episodic #explain #factory

Judaism has always been a strong interest of mine. My two sons speak Hebrew and are familiar with the scriptures and with rabbinic literature. This is the way we live.


Herman Wouk


#been #familiar #hebrew #interest #judaism

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'


Nina Hagen


#being #charts #dream #familiar #god

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


William Hazlitt


#breed #contempt #edge #familiarity #may

Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people I'm working with. I am aware of what the team is capable of and how the organisation works, and they are familiar with what makes me tick.


Damon Hill


#aware #because #been #capable #familiar

Familiarity breeds contempt.


Aesop


#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.


Alfre Woodard


#everyone #fall #falling #falling in love #familiar

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.


Charles D. Broad


#concepts #concerned #familiar #long #mean

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.


Harold Brodkey


#being #combines #die #i #ill






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