Quotes About Acquaintance

I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

The things that I paint are things that I know very well.

I was never OJ's closest pal, and the media would say that over and over, but I wasn't his enemy either.

Jonathan Sadowski is a kick in the pants; he's become a really good buddy.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.

Sunglasses must be kept on until an acquaintance is identified at one of the tables, but one must not appear to be looking for company. Instead, the impression should be that one is heading into the cafe to make a phone call to one's titled Italian admirer, when--quelle surprise!--one sees a friend. The sunglasses can then be removed and the hair tossed while one is persuaded to sit down.

The person who has never made an enemy will never make a friend.

I'd known the Duke of Edinburgh over a period of 40 years, so I'd long been accustomed to his sense of humor.

It's been estimated that approximately 85 percent of all rapes are in fact committed by assailants who are acquainted in some way with their victims, and that only a small percentage of these "non-stranger rapes" result in the successful prosecution of the rapist.

My father and he had cemented (the verb is excessive) one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We'd become friends, of the sort men often are, in that we daily confirmed each other's existence but pretty much left it at that.

Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance

Somewhere between a friend and acquaintance—a frequaintance, as it were.

I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.

We want to be big... we want to be a big band, but we don't want to be your best friends.

I like Bryan Caraway a lot; I used to train with him. I consider him a friend.

Sanjeev Nanda is a buddy. I've known him for some time and we hang around with common friends.

I don't know Jeb Bush. I've never met him.

We talk of choosing our friends, but our friends are self-elected.

As our great American philosopher William James has said, an individual has as many selves as there are individuals whom he knows. There isn't the slightest hypocrisy in this, but only pragmatic ethics. For not all persons are worthy of our acquaintance, and not all persons require equal time from us. You save your most valuable 'personality' for the most valuable persons you know.

God. He who does not love has not become acquainted with God [does not and never did know Him]. —1 JOHN 4:7-8 When I walk in love God is present. —1 JOHN 4:12 Love

Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for, they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap, and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon.