Quotes About Acquaintance

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull is now a good friend, and the thing that strikes you about him is that he's all about details.

A lot of people in America don't know me, and that's something I have to overcome.

believe you are an acquaintance of Odette Brown?' 'She's no acquaintance of mine. Odette Brown is my closest friend.

It is a wound, if you wish,' said Stephen. 'But not from our battle with the Cacafuego. Some lady of your acquaintance has been too liberal with her favours, too universally kind.

You know Quinn? Macaulay asked me. Ten minutes ago I was putting him to bed. Macaulay grinned. I hope you keep his acquaintance like that - social Meaning what? Macaulay's grin became rueful. He used to be my broker, and his advice led me right up to the poorhouse steps. That's sweet, I said. he's my broker now and I'm following his advice. Macaulay and the girl laughed. I pretended I was laughing and returned to my table.

i knew him, Horatio

He felt he would like one more look at the sea, which even now was licking at the rocks behind the house. He had no sentimental notions about the sea; he had no regard for its dangers or its beauties; to him it was a close acquaintance whose every virtue and failing, every smile and tantrum he had come to understand.

She knew that he had never seen her before. She knew the value of first impressions.

Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of aItalian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's own kitchen, the prospect is mouth-watering.

Whether a gastronomic tour of Italy, an elegant meal at the home of an Italian acquaintance, or "cooking Italian" back in one's own kitchen, the prospect is mouth-watering.

When you are communicating with new people you do not have to know their names — after all, you've just met.

On the security circuit in the Middle East, reputation is everything. If you don't know someone, they're probably not worth knowing.

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

Already a connoisseur of boredom, Tony extended his acquaintance with Salisbury's furnished lodgings and the cheap residential hotels of Andover.

Sí, ambicioso... Si lo llamo ambicioso, es sobre todo en honor a nuestra estrecha amistad, de otro modo se expresaría uno más correctamente diciendo que pega fuerte con los codos. La ambición es una cosa tan poco ordinaria... Nos hemos acostumbrado a decir que alguien es ambicioso cuando aspira a ser consejero de estado.

Friends, we have not till now been unacquainted with misfortunes.

sounded so sure of herself, as if she knew Lars

We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

I am happy to meet you, Nya," he said. "My name is Salva.

James Van Der Beek and I go way back. We were in the movie 'Angus' together in 1994 or 1995, so I've known him for a million years.

befriending people not so much because they like them, but because of a past they happened to share.

Men have just come up to me and asked for my number right away. That doesn't work. You have to know somebody and have a conversation.

A friend will know you better in the first minute they see you, than your acquaintance will in a thousand years.