#familiarity

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

— Jennifer Tilly

#assumed #else #everybody #everybody else #familiarity

My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt. ↗

— Chaka Khan

#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #philosophy

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. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#advantageous #already #director #familiarity #feel

Strangers are only offensive when they offer courteous greetings. It abolishes the impartial judgment needed for a just society. ↗

— Bauvard

#familiarity #funny #humor #justice #strangers

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

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity

Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still. ↗

— Julian Barnes

#contentment #familiarity #habit #long-term-relationships #love

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

— David Foster Wallace

#familiarity #find #important #meditated #most

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. ↗

— Albert Claude

#appreciation #case #death #experienced #familiarity

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

— Paul Lazarsfeld

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #politics #votes

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

— Boris Spassky

#chess #enormous #familiarity #fischer #his