Quotes About Unfamiliarity

If a man from medieval times could have seen this red-lit city, and the beings moving through it, he would certainly have believed himself in Hell. Even Jan, for all his curiosity and scientific detachment, found himself on the verge of unreasoning terror. The absence of a single familiar reference point can be utterly unnerving even to the coolest and clearest of minds.

We're not sitting with those people. We never saw them before in our lives.

I have no friends here apart from the dudes at my record label, and I didn't go to school with no one. Nobody knows me - I'm incognito. It's all new, all fun.

The hardest weeks for me are when I get to a course that I've never been to before or one that has been through a redesign.

Admiration and familiarity are strangers.

During my time, fortunately or unfortunately, I had no idea what Miss Universe was supposed to be like because nobody from India had won the title before me.

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.

Occasionally in life we come upon things we can't understand, because we have never seen anything similar.

There was probably a range of people she had never experienced in this world and for which she had no preparation

The city feels as alien as to me as it always has. But, then, everywhere does, these days.

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon ' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

There were no women's players I knew of. I didn't even know women's hockey existed.

I burst out with, "Aaron—Bear—" The names are unfamiliar on my tongue, like I've never spoken them before.

I have a hatred of familiarity. If I feel like I am doing something I've done before, it feels old and done. I feel I have no choice but to strike out in directions that feel new - anything less just doesn't seem worth it.

My mom wouldn't know Tom Cruise if he punched her in the face.

You're not used to it, are you?

You are a stranger to me, and I am a stranger to myself.

Proximity doesn't breed familiarity.

Because people are always afraid of what they do not know, what they do not understand, the unfamiliar or the different, and

Everything which is human is alien to me.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.

All this, I suspect, has been little more than the operation known as the pilgrimage from the cradle to the grave, but I have had a comfortable feeling that, however ordinary my enterprises may have been, they had at any rate the advantage of containing, for me, an element of sustained unfamiliarity. I am one of those persons who begin life by exclaiming they've "never seen anything like this before" and die in the hope that they may say the same of heaven.

He went to the bar and stood there a while. But he was in the way of people getting their drinks. He moved to the edge of the crowd and just watched. Suddenly it seemed, he was drunk, in a suit that didn't fit, at a party where he didn't know anyone, and he was standing alone.