Quotes About Unfamiliar

An expert is an ordinary fella away from home.

Same old notes, Blanche thinks at one point, but arranged into unfamiliar music.

Sharing cabs with strangers is weird.

The stories that are most unfamiliar, the ones that seem to come out of the blue about people that aren't well known, usually come from producers that have really done a lot of homework and looked around. Other stories come from the correspondents.

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.

I've never been to Prague, and I've never been to Russia.

The first day I worked with Brian Johnston was very daunting.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

The only truly alien planet is Earth.

It was exciting and intellectually gratifying to speculate on what might lie waiting in the black gulfs when one was behind the business end of a telescope, quite another to do so isolated on an unpleasant little speck of a world such as this, confronted by a ship of non-human manufacture that uncomfortably resembled a growth instead of a familiar device for manipulating and overcoming the neat laws of physics.

in a house where he knew all the carpets as territories, castles, jumping squares, there was this other room with a carpet he had never jumped on.

And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work.

The consumer is influenced in his choice of styling by two opposing factors: (a) attraction to the new and (b) resistance to the unfamiliar," he wrote. "When resistance to the unfamiliar reaches the threshold of a shock-zone and resistance to buying sets in, the design in question has reached its MAYA stage: Most Advanced Yet Acceptable.

I am not familiar with Telugu, Tamil or Malayalam and tend to feel they are foreign languages to me.

unfamiliar lens; repeatedly, he takes the raw materials of life and reshapes them into teasing fragments of narrative. All that is missing is a plot where they can snap into place.

These figures are black, yet they are not like negroes. I have never seen their like." "Let

This wasn't someone I had encountered in any biography.

there with the unfamiliar insignia of their rank.

Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths.

In the theater, the attitude of righteous ownership deprives the audience of an encounter with the unfamiliar.

If I am offered a biopic on a person people know almost everything about, what is the point doing it? A film on someone about whom very less is known is something that would interest me.

People keep asking me why I don't return to China. I tell them I can't return to a place I've never been. In

done him in! Yuh deny it? Deny it? Lance stared at the man, his eyes watchful. Why, I never heard of Joe Wilkins

But, of course, memory and responsibility are strangers. They're foreign to each other. Memory always goes its own way quite regardless.