Top 326 Familiarity Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it.
Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.
For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.
Familiarity isn't always a good thing... sometimes you need a little crisis to shake things up.
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.
When you have parents that come from a country that you weren't raised in, you feel this weird sense of familiarity, like you've returned to something.
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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.
I think Tabasco brings me pure heat and Southern kind of familiarity, along with the vinegar and the barrel-aged spices.
How can you build something for someone else if you don't have enough familiarity with them to imagine the world through their eyes?
She hated the implied familiarity when customers requested things from her by name.
Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.
My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.
The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly relations.
I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my neighbours would testify - if I'd ever met them.
Art is continually working to take the crust of familiarity off everyday objects.
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether its with Africa or childhood.
One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word 'impossible.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
The sound and just the fact that it was different from the piano, yet it still had some familiarity [made my fascinated with accordion].
Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form or told their use.
Like any friendship or marriage, familiarity breeds more contempt, and love, and everything.
Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.
No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well)
That's the power of television. You come into people's homes every week, and that creates a familiarity and a false sense of intimacy.
All music is just a collision of sounds until you know its internal conventions and understand the nuances. It's a question of familiarity.
Comfort and familiarity were wonderful but they also dulled passion and excitement. Predictability and habit made surprises almost impossible.
It never pays to walk blindly. Especially not in your own castle where familiarity hides so much - even when we have the eyes to see.
Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.
I always use familiarity in my music, whether it's in my song writing or whatever.
The most promising ideas begin from novelty and then add familiarity.
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.
Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.
I have long held that many of the writers and artists working in the aftermath of 9/11 have presented a faux familiarity with the so-called terrorist mind.
The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: "It's the man from TV!"
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.
Even a pandit comes to grief by giving instruction to a foolish disciple, by maintaining a wicked wife, and by excessive familiarity with the miserable.
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.
I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.
I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
I would like for my kids to at least have some familiarity with who I am: 'It's the man from TV!'
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
Repeat reading for me shares a few things with hot-water bottles and thumbsucking: comfort, familiarity, the recurrence of the expected.
