Quotes About Acquaintance

When Sharan called me for 'Rambo,' we were acquainted, but had not worked together. Right from day one, though, there was an easygoing camaraderie between us, which was only amplified by his implicit trust in me and my ability to deliver for his film.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.

The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.

I should explain — in view of my last letter, you may find it slightly surprising — that Daphne and I are now bosom friends. That is to say, she seems to think we are; and I do not feel that I know her well enough to dispute it.

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

In our own case--we are not afraid of dynamite till we get acquainted with it.

My acquaintance smiled—not a modern smile, but one that must have gone out of general use many, many centuries ago—and muttered apparently to himself: Wit ye well, I saw it done .  Then, after a pause, added: I did it myself. By the time I had recovered from the electric surprise of this remark, he was gone. All that evening I sat by my fire at the Warwick Arms, steeped in a dream of the olden time

Dr. Watson, Mr. Sherlock Holmes,' said Stamford, introducing us.

On the whole, people tend to trust too much in the evidence of their senses; if they should happen to see a deceased acquaintance in public, they would sooner believe in a resurrection than admit to their own insanity.

You know what they say, if you make atleast one friend on your first day you're doing okay

We was used to each other in the way I s'pose two old bats can get used to hangin upside-down next to each other in the same cave, even though they're a long way from what you'd call the best of friends.

Time is your acquaintance. Life is your friend. Death is your opponent. Eternity is your companion.

Time is your acquaintance, life is your friend, death is your enemy, and existence is your soulmate.

You just need to get used to each other.

at New Haven with the valedictory. In his Sophomore year he made the acquaintance of Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding—a work which left a permanent impress on his thinking. He read it, he says, with a far higher pleasure "than the most greedy miser finds when gathering up handfuls of silver and gold from some newly-discovered treasure.

IV. When those that we have formerly been conversant with are turning to God, and to his people, their example ought to influence us. Their example should be looked upon as the call of God to us to do as they have done. God, when he changes the heart of one, calls upon another; especially does he loudly call on those that have been their friends and acquaintance.

Friendly, yes. Friend, never.

I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

and we considered them friends.

I know Bo Xilai well. But our relationship was based on our work; we didn't have a personal relationship.