Quotes About Unfamiliar

One thing that's nice about doing a movie about people that hardly anyone knows, you never worry if they're a perfect match.

I don't know Sally Jenkins. I've met her once. I wouldn't know her in an elevator.

I'm not used to a script.

Only one ship is seeking us, a black- Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back A huge and birdless silence. In her wake No waters breed or break.

Nothing is like anything he knows. It's like being born a second time.

Our perception of time is really driven by our perception of the unfamiliar, vivid, and new.

I don't know anything about baseball.

Yeah, maybe you look a little less familiar yourself.

How, after all, can one miss something one has never known?

The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?

I think I have only walked down the high street once in my married life.

I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.

No fundo é esta a única coragem que se exige de nós: sermos corajosos diante do que é mais estranho, mais maravilhoso e mais inexplicável entre tudo com que nos deparamos.

They were dying slowly - it was very clear. They were not enemies, they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now - nothing but black shadows of disease and starvation, lying confusedly in the greenish gloom. Brought from all the recesses of the coast in all the legality of time contracts, lost in uncongenial surroundings, fed on unfamiliar food, they sickened, became inefficient, and were then allowed to crawl away and rest.

The earth seemed unearthly.

England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

I was attempting to do something I had never done before, and whenever we challenge ourselves, fear and doubt are inevitable. I am not sure we ever vanquish these voices. Whenever we are at the edge of our ability and experience, they always whisper in our ears, their worried words. I have come to see that these voices are actually trying to keep us safe as they warn us away from the unfamiliar and the unknown, but this does not make their daggers of self-doubt any less painful.

There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end up in so many unfamiliar places, from Alaska to Africa.

I suppose I should learn Lisp, but it seems so foreign.

Fuori la notte era un enorme sogno estraneo.

BEYOND THE FARM, they'd heard, there were strange pale children who grew up entirely indoors and knew nothing of the fields and streams. Some of these children, they'd heard, had never even seen a tree.

going they hadn't heard of it either.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

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