Quotes About Unfamiliar

Fear wasn't the problem, she could deal with nerves, it was the excitement welling up in her that frightened her most. The unfamiliar emotion was too strong. Too needy. Too everything she was unprepared to deal with.

he faced south and the strange, barbaric lands that lay there.

It was awkward, revisiting a world you have never seen before: like coming home, after a long journey, to someone else's house.

El pasado es un país extraño; allí hacen las cosas de manera muy diferente a como las hacemos aquí

I worked on smiling at her, so she'd smile back. But it was an effort for me, a trip into the unfamiliar. It made me think of the tin man in The Wizard of Oz,

I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo.

His world was gloomy; but he did not know that, for he knew no other world.

New York is great, but I miss L.A. - I feel like there was something exotic about L.A. that I kind of underestimated at the time. It was very unfamiliar to me.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

I've definitely received a lot of support in Nashville; it's a huge music town. I like country music. Like any genre I'm largely unfamiliar with, there are elements I really enjoy and elements that go over my head.

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

I think literature can make familiar the unfamiliar, and the unfamiliar is very much about the dispossessed, and so the value of literature seems to me to go into the stories that not everybody wants to tell.

I don't seek discomfort. But, very often, you realise that what you fear is actually quite ephemeral; something's different, something's unfamiliar; therefore, it must be worse.

Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away.

In Britten or Berg, there's a tension between the sweet and the sour, between the familiar and the unfamiliar, the tonal and the atonal, the happy and the sad. That, to me, is what all western art is about - that tension. It's why we want to say anything at all.

The ability to have that mobility of music right now, where you can be in an airport with a sample library, it means that you can channel that mind-space you're in when you're overly tired and in an unfamiliar place.

The week of the Super Bowl takes on a carnival atmosphere. There are so many media commitments. There are so many NFL commitments, buses being shuttled from here to there. You are practicing at unfamiliar places. You are asked to do things that are outside of the norm of your typical game week.

A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.

Beat a man with what he doesn't know.

New Mexico was such a strange place; it was like filming on Mars.

It's more interesting to see new people on the screen when you go to the cinema. I don't want to see the same old faces.

We had no clue what heavy metal was. We were like: 'What's that?'