Quotes About Acquaintance

I'm a huge fan of Morris Chestnut. I grew up with Morris, and I know him personally.

Perhaps soon the two of them would grow accustomed to each other and guilt would come to eat out of his hand.

I consider Tom Gores a friend.

I don't really know a lot of famous people. I've met a lot of famous people. If I ran into Tom Hanks today, I would have to remind him who I was and he would then remember me. But he wouldn't come up to me and say, 'Hi Dave!'

Tony Blair's a friend.

To read a book for the first time is to make the acquaintance of a new friend; to read it a second time is to meet an old one.

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.

I found the evil in myself a long time ago, and I've accepted it. We're old friends.

I consider my time too valuable to be spent in cultivating acquaintance with a person from whom neither pleasure nor improvement are to be expected.

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Stevie always tried to be truthful, but she didn't want to make her first acquaintance in her new house and say, Your show was mediocre and overrated but I see why you are valued: for your looks and deep voice. People tended not to warm to that kind of thing.

She seemed to find him suitable as an inconsequential companion for an occasional, inconsequential evening. He thought that she liked him.

Her mark on history: the female acquaintance.

Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don't believe that they deserve any better—so they don't go looking for it. Or, perhaps, they don't want the trouble of better.

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth—or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives—they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don't believe that they deserve any better—so they don't go looking for it.

Sometimes, when people have a low opinion of their own worth - or, perhaps, when they refuse responsibility for their lives - they choose a new acquaintance, of precisely the type who proved troublesome in the past. Such people don't believe that they deserve any better. Freud called this a "repetition compulsion." He thought of it as an unconscious drive to repeat the horrors of the past - sometimes, perhaps, to formulate those horrors more precisely, because no alternatives beckon.

Twenty years is more than enough to know a town, and no one can convince me otherwise. San Diego had six thousand souls, and I knew all the townspeople as if I myself had given birth to them and I myself had nursed them. I knew on which foot this one limped, and which shoe was too tight for that one, who was courting which young woman.

H-h-hey there, compadre!

In the beginning, believe it or not, me and Acid Betty were good friends.

I know Nana Patekar; he is indecent.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

I met Auden late in his life and mine—at an age when the easy knowledgeable intimacy of friendships concluded in one's youth can no longer be attained, because not enough life is left, or expected to be left, to share with one another. Thus, we were very good friends but not intimate friends.

How is Ed?" "He's good." She smiled warmly. "He's a nice man." "Yeah," Loren said, "a prince." "I've known him a long time.