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#familiarity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #familiarity




My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.


Chaka Khan


#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #philosophy

Familiarity breeds contempt.


Publilius Syrus


#contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

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.


Anne Edwards


#body #camera #claimed #could #every

I wonder if ever again Americans can have that experience of returning to a home place so intimately known, profoundly felt, deeply loved, and absolutely submitted to? It is not quite true that you can't go home again. I have done it, coming back here. But it gets less likely. We have had too many divorces, we have consumed too much transportation, we have lived too shallowly in too many places.


Wallace Stegner


#depth #familiarity #home #intimacy #shallowness

Anne’s is a world very like this one, and you can move about in it with familiarity - but not freedom: it is a place of rigorous consequence, where the weak have to give way to the strong, where her governess heroine Agnes must walk as best she can in the cold shade of money and masculinity.


Jude Morgan


#familiarity #strong #weakness #freedom

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.


James Wolcott


#been #big #brady #bunch #celebrity

In suiting the action to the words, however, I perceived that the stars were all wrong. That was my undoing. I had looked up unthinkingly, anticipating the familiar, and, finding it gone, began to cry like a baby. Whereupon Peter stopped the gig and took me in his arms, kissing me so that my face was soon sore both from kissing and crying.


Jennifer Paynter


#jane-austen #jennifer-paynter #love #marriage #mary-bennet

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

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.


Michael Stipe


#appeal #away #band #because #breeds

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.


George Sand


#familiarity #strangers






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