Quotes About Unfamiliar

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

i do not know this man, i think. he is no one i have ever seen before.

When we are on a journey we don't fear change, we welcome it, we look forward to new and unfamiliar experiences, we are full of optimism because we are filled with the expectation of a wonderful adventure and it's the perfect attitude to carry with you every day because life too is a journey.

Awkwardly standing there, as your friend is talking to someone you don't know.

Most of our faculties lie dormant because they can rely upon Habit, which knows what there is to be done and has no need of their services. But on this morning of travel, the interruption of the routine of my existence, the unfamiliar place and time, had made their presence indispensable. My habits...for once were missing, and all my faculties came hurrying to take their place.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

The only freedom is the freedom from the known.

The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

It's difficult to remember when you haven't played it before.

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

What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.

Her companionship was like a warm soil about an exotic.

8. FIRST REACTION: A quick withdrawal from anything new is typical of many spirited kids. Any unfamiliar idea, thing, place, or person may be met with a vehement "NO!" or a quick disappearance behind your leg or to another room. They need time to warm up before they're ready to participate.

She's also showing me behavior I've never even heard of, like passenger road rage.

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

Go to the streets that you have never been to! Wander in the places that you have never known! There is light in the hidden corners of life too! Expand your frontiers and the frontiers will expand you!

The beach was such a novel experience that most were completely unfamiliar with the health hazards—and risks to life and limb—it posed." —Gideon Bosker and Lena Lencek, The Beach: The History of Paradise on Earth

So strange and rare. So full of faraway.

The deeper we went, the stranger things became.

It's like Teccam said, nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.