Quotes About Acquaintance

I don't know Robbie Williams. I know his name, but I've never met him.

After all, when no name springs spontaneously to mind, when you have to rummage in your address book for someone to invite, it is always best to give up trying, if only out of regard for the very concept of friendship.

that made the unfamiliar familiar.

The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.

Meeting new people feels like dating. I try to find someone I like, casually start a conversation, and hope we have things in common.

I look upon every day to be lost in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Admiration begins where acquaintance ceases

Ich hab allerlei Bekanntschaft gemacht, Gesellschaft hab ich noch keine gefunden.

The spectators were expressing their sympathy in various ways, when, the officers of law having finished their ceremonial, the cart went on; and Wilhelm, who took a deep interest in the fate of the lovers, hastened forward by a foot path to get some acquaintance with the Amtmann before the procession should arrive.

The men who knew that he knew what he knew had found him

You may think me mad." "My dear fellow, we hardly know each other. I wouldn't dare to make such a judgment until we were better acquainted.

Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.

Prereading is a game changer. It changed my life. Everyone is smarter when they have seen the material before. You will be too.

Many people one meets in life somehow think they know you simply because they're hanging out at the same counter-but they really don't know a thing about you.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

It's amazing how right you can sometimes be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

The extraverted are right, however, when they say that "a stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet.

What was it to know each other?

In short, the persons we see most clearly are not necessarily those we know best.

shouldn't do anything suspicious, like trying to map out the entire city in the first week.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

I knew of Queen, and I knew of Freddie, but I didn't know who the rest of the band were. I became friends with Freddie first; then I got to know the others.

I'm very lucky, in that I've known Adele for quite some time.

John Hirschbeck is a wonderful person with a wonderful family. I'm so glad that we have become friends.