(380 quotes found)
“Jack Nicklaus is playing an entirely different game, and one which I'm not even familiar with.”
Bobby Jones
“You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.”
Eliot Ness
“And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Horse-play, romping, frequent and loud fits of laughter, jokes, and indiscriminate familiarity, will sink both merit and knowledge into a degree of contempt. They compose at most a merry fellow; and a merry fellow was never yet a respectable man.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Familiarity used to breed contempt ..... now it just breeds”
Christopher Molineux
“The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition”
W. H. Auden
“Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.”
Honore de Balzac
“And what I hoped, and what I still hope, is that within those familiar elements I'm able to provide a unique twist. If there's anything that's truly unique about the series, what I'm most proud of is Eragon's relationship with Saphira.”
Christopher Paolini
“The great thing about having a team that's this talented and being with them for three years, we're very familiar with each other and what we're trying to accomplish. We can work on little things that will make the difference. We're not starting from ground zero.”
Brad Ackerman
“Adrian is comfortable with his decision. I am not familiar with the full detail of what happened last time around but he has informed McLaren and he is a free agent as of the end of January.”
Christian Horner
