Quotes About Unfamiliarity

She felt no interest in anything about her. The street, the children, the fruit vender, the flowers growing there under her eyes, were all part and parcel of an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.

Se sentía como si hubiera sido un niño hasta ese día… Era como si hubiese estado viviendo en una casa con habitaciones en las que jamás había entrado, y la hubiese compartido con unos extraños a quienes jamás les había puesto los ojos encima. Se sentía desorientado por el descubrimiento de su propia ignorancia. Era como perder el equilibrio.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

I want everything to be bizarre; I want not to recognize anyone.

I've never been on a cruise.

We have greater political and social conflict because we must add unfamiliarity with fellow citizens of different racial backgrounds to the challenges we confront in resolving legitimate disagreements about public issues. Racial polarization stemming from our separateness has corrupted our politics, permitting leaders who ignore the interests of white working-class voters to mobilize them with racial appeals.

they seemed to be greater strangers than before

What the hell is that?" The drill sergeant almost mumbled to himself. "I've never seen that piece of metal before in my life….

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

The Aelfinn are not evil, but they are so different from humanity they may as well be so. They are not to be trusted. —Birgitte Silverbow

It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

what ease our seemingly entrenched lives might be altered were we simply to walk down a corridor and onto a craft that in a few hours would land us in a place of which we had no memories and where no one knew our name.

He did not put his feelings down to simple xenophobia. Basically, he hadn't expected the alien to be so completely alien.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Kindness is very attractive when you're not used to it.

It's really difficult when you don't see much of a team and you're not familiar with how they play.

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

I went to outer space," I said, "But I didn't like it.

I had not been in love before. It was like a wheel rolling downhill.

Never heard of them [Nick's colleagues], he remarked decisively. This annoyed me.

A paz que é dos que não conhecem e esquecem sem querer.

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)