Quotes About Unfamiliarity

I came to San Antonio without knowing anything about the city.

I was never a fan of sci-fi or space stuff.

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.

He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.

I don't know anything about baseball.

gli parve di essere sbucato fuori non solo dagli acquitrini, ma anche dalla domenica, e di essere finito tra le dune di un ottavo, anonimo giorno della settimana che lui era l'unica persona al mondo a conoscere.

Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.

And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all. He was in someone else's house, like those other jokes people told of the gentleman, drunk, coming home late late at night, unlocking the wrong door, entering a wrong room, and bedding with a stranger and getting up early and going to work and neither of them the wiser.

And suddenly she was so strange he couldn't believe he knew her at all.

Unfamiliar places could be more dangerous than familiar places, unexpectedly. The boy had been discovering that an unfamiliar place was more easily "haunted" than a familiar place simply because there was less there to distract the memory.

In order to fight a war (probably the most extreme form of poor communication), unfamiliarity is the preferred state of mind.

Like with 'Outlander' as well as with 'Agent Carter,' I had never heard of 'Outlander' before I got the part.

I didn't know a single person who had ever been there. I wasn't even sure how to spell Chechnya.

I don't know these people and they aren't my flowers.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

I feel like a stranger in my own world.

I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing about Europe.

Keep your sense of humor, and approach new experiences with a childlike sense of wonder. Allow your creativity to flourish and accept the mistakes that will inevitably come. Embrace unfamiliarity and give yourself the grace to find your footing.

they never know one another and they're all crazed and wandering.

An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren't taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn't believe I didn't look equally strange to them.

I don't play golf. I don't know anything about golf.

When we look at something that is alien to us, that is beyond our comprehension, what do we see but ourselves?

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.