Quotes About Unfamiliar

Uncharted territory," I said. "The parts on the maps of our lives that we don't understand. In cartographer's language they call these places sleeping beauties.

It was new there even if it was nowhere.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a stranger in a strange city.

The corridors and rooms were starting to fill with unfamiliar faces and patients the size of small whales being wheeled past on trolleys.

Your body will never be familiar.

My usual trick with the Irish plays is to set things on islands I've never been to.

For vacation, I like going to places I've never been before. I've gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.

When we are in an unfamiliar situation, we fall back on drawing analogies with old familiar situations. That's a good way to proceed if the old and new situations are truly analogies, but it can be dangerous if they are only superficially similar.

Time, if not space, renders all of us travelers. Cling as we might, we are ultimately compelled to let go of the familiar, to forge affinities with the new, and to sense the approach of the more unfamiliar still. We feel our way. If we are as fortunate as the Blind Traveler, we are given the grace to listen, with equal attention, to the intelligence of winds and the solemnity of silence. To remain, joyfully, awake to the path itself.

But even with that tremendous reservoir of information at her disposal, she had recently seen some vegetation that was completely unfamiliar, as unfamiliar as the countryside. She would have liked to

I'm not from New Orleans, never knew anything about New Orleans.

We are all Strangers . . . Some of us are just Stranger than others.

We are all strangers, some are just stranger than others.

Frightfulness is never more than an unfamiliar pattern.

This wasn't a strange place; it was a new one.

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Los perros, de cierto, ladran a quien no conocen

One must placate large strange men in the middle of nowhere.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

I've never seen 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer.'

Every now and then we find ourselves living through moments that make no sense at all. It's almost as if some omnipotent film editor has snipped us out of our familiar everyday movie and spliced us into something completely random, from a different time and genre and even from a foreign country and partially animated, because suddenly you look around you and the language is unknown and nothing that happens has any relationship to what you think of as reality. This

Believe it or not, I've never been on the subway.

Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto