Quotes About Unfamiliar

A story: lurks. A story, a good story, is just out of reach, always. Wake up in an unfamiliar darkness, in a room you don't seem to recognize. Flip on the light. Nothing there. It's your room again. But didn't you feel a presence in the dark? The presence of someone you once knew? Someone you once loved?

Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

Relaxing, getting wild and free, those were all alien concepts for her.

technology was unfamiliar territory for me. See, those who wield the primordial forces of creation have a long-running grudge with physics.

Dear Joan, the letter begins, although the writer did not know me at all.

The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.

If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange.

For a moment I felt the terror. The deep primeval terror of something one does not understand, something which is against nature or, at the least, against everything one has ever seen or known before.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you? (Plato)

I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know, and even then, not all that deeply. Strangers get nothing from me.

This was...This was sickeningly different. It was blind, unreasoning hate that just wanted blood and she didn't understand why. It left her feeling horrified and shaky.

Break the daily and weekly routine you have set. Get out of that comfortable route.

she thought that sometimes you walk right into language as though it's a chair out of place in a dark room: a word, an expression you live with all your life can become suddenly, completely unfamiliar. That night Beatrice stumbled over death, but it was dark, and she was tired, and she believed that she had stumbled across love.

An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

You don't know what you don't know

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

People always like things that seem exotic.

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

The desert was outside my range, it was an alien being, it was science fiction, both saturating and remote, and I had to force myself to believe I was here.

It's quiet." "Too quiet," Jason said, then laughed. "That's an ancient joke on Earth." "The more I hear about Urth the stranger it gets.

He plays with a style with which I am not personally familiar

Tianna picked up her backpack and started out to the hallway with a confident swing in her hips. A sly smile crossed her face this time when she saw the guys stare. She walked down the unfamiliar hallways next to Corrine. The knot of anxiety was beginning to unravel, and she started to relax.

Faced with the unfamiliar, we the public have been trained to rely on museums, like schools, to serve up art and culture like pieces of pie: little wedges of esthetics, criticism, politics and history.

He had not recognized me, and thought I was some master he did not know.