#familiarity

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

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. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#comedy #drama #even #familiarity #gives

His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#beards #colors #familiarity #life

'Free' is more of that 'familiarity breeds contempt' kind of thing. It's about saying 'Wait, I'm longing for something more than I have and I don't know what it is that I want, but I know I want it.' It has nothing to do with what I'm going through, personally. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#breeds #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds #free

I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#familiarity #flashy #great #great deal #how

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. ↗

— Mark Twain

#children #contempt #familiarity #familiarity breeds

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. ↗

— Christopher Walken

#based #because #business #doctor #early

Familiarity with evil breeds not contempt but acceptance. ↗

— Roy Hattersley

#breeds #contempt #evil #familiarity

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

— Debbie Reynolds

#comes #even #familiarity #get #i