Quotes About Acquaintance

La familiaridad engendra la indiferencia.

Just because you met somebody, doesn't mean to say you know anything about them.

Will you be my friend?" Bertie asked. And then added: "Just for Paris. You don't have to be my friend forever – just for Paris.

Look at the way people try to make points of contact with others when they meet. Look at the way you instinctively try to establish whether somebody you meet for the first time knows somebody you know.

I would know Christina Rossetti in a minute but not you.

Of all the places you could go, I just thought youd choose somewhere that has somebody that you know.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

I didn't know that people compared Bill Hicks and I but certainly I'm flattered if they do. I knew Bill a bit. We had dinner a couple of times and played guitar together once. I really tried to keep my distance from him professionally.

When a lot of players come to a club, it can be difficult to gel because you don't know each other properly.

I had been there before; I knew all about it.

When it was done, Guy studied himself once more in the glass and recognized an old acquaintance he could never cut, to whom he could never hope to give the slip for long, the uncongenial fellow traveler who would accompany him through life.

After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.

I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. He's got such a wicked sense of humor.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Gavin Lambert was the first person in the movie business my wife and I met when we moved to Los Angeles in 1964.

Most human beings are quite likable if you do not see too much of them.

I'm Felix," said the skinny guy. "This is my man Moses.

She was living in bad sociery; and, imaginary though it was, its influence affected her, for she was feeding heart and fancy on dangerous and unsubstantial food, and was fast brushing the innocent bloom from her nature by a premature acquaintance with the darker side of life, which comes soon enough to all of us.

had a wide business acquaintance, but few associates knew him well.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards