Quotes About Unfamiliarity

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

They stopped talking the moment they saw me, as if they were speaking some language I couldn't even begin to understand. And they probably were.

what you don't know, you don't miss

the nausea due to misunderstanding a language, the fear due to unfamiliarity with a style, the conflict of generations, are all mild examples of sign shock.

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

Mundanes who involve themselves in things they know nothing about are likely to meet unpleasant endings.

A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.

A child must have care and attention, but that care and attention need not emanate from a single, permanently present individual. Children are more disturbed by changes of place than by changes in personnel around them, and more distressed by friction and ill-feeling between the adults in their environment than by unfamiliarity.

I don't like new environments. I don't like being around a lot of new people. It makes me uncomfortable.

Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?

You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.

The little I knew of England was London, Newcastle. I knew very little about England and I didn't know anything about Wolverhampton.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.

Ti ride negli occhi la stranezza di un cielo che non è il tuo.

The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

I am starting to like L.A., but the concept of a place you have to get used to so much seems a little weird to me. I have been to many foreign cities where I didn't have to acclimatize as much as I did to L.A.

I didn't go to school, because I never stayed anywhere long enough, so I was completely closed off from the outside world. I had no idea about anything.

I - you know, I know almost nothing about sports. So whenever I hear anything involving sports, my go-to move is to kind of nod and agree.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

By comparison, George W. Bush was light and breezy and apparently forgot during one debate that Social Security was a federal program. In fact, his depth, and his unfamiliarity with the complexities of the issues, to say nothing of the simple declarative sentence, worked remarkably to his advantage.

The truth is I never knew him well—only well enough to know that I didn't wish to know him better. •

Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.