Quotes About Unfamiliar

If you've got good systemising skills you can apply them to systems you aren't familiar with, and look for patterns.

Les formes paraissaient étranges parce qu'elles étaient inconnues.

How would we ever know aliens? We can't even know birds.

Nico grinned, which hurt his face muscles. He wasn't used to making that expression.

An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood. She did not sit there inwardly upbraiding her husband, lamenting at Fate, which had directed her footsteps to the path which they had taken. She was just having a good cry all to herself.

It was like a shadow, like a mist passing across her soul's summer day. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood.

Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!

The other things you don't think about are the opposite things, the things that aren't part of your background, that fall so far outside your personal experience that you don't give them a second thought.

Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

I'm getting closer to the coast and realize how much I hate arriving at a destination. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

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.

Whatever it is, we always depend on the kindness of the strange.

The shock of finding a familiar word in an unfamiliar setting.] A SS man would examine us. Whenever he found a weak one, a musulman as we called them, he would write his number down: good for the crematory.

Strangers are strange to each other.

precious little had been learned about conditions in these unfrequented waters.

To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar ... is to understand.

I am amused by cricket because it seems to take longer than baseball and I like that. It seems like a sport I could have made up it - it takes several days to play and everyone wears sweaters. I can't confess to knowing what's going on at all.

None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.

Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last.

I don't know the language or the laws and I'm completely unfamiliar with the currency . . . but, God, is it ever beautiful here.

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -Scarecrow

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

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