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Quotes About Unfamiliar

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.
~ John Mayer
Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
The inside of the house – with its shallow door-panels, lozenge door-knobs, polished brass ball on the end of the banisters, stuffy red matt paper with stripes to artfully shadowed as to appear bars – was more than simply novel to Henrietta, it was antagonistic, as though it had been invented to put her out. She felt the house was acting, nothing seemed to be natural; objects did not wait to be seen but came crowding in on her, each with what amounted to its aggressive cry.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a map of no earthly geography." -
~ Elizabeth Knox
Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
~ Quentin Blake
I had never really fired guns before, so this was all very new to me.
~ Shane West
Why do you condemn a man who you have never seen, whom no one knows about and whom you yourself know nothing?
~ Gaston Leroux
The domain of the stranger is always an elusive elsewhere .
~ Saidiya V. Hartman
Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate.
~ Peter D. Mitchell
Each moment is new. We have never lived it before and will never live it again. It is familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
~ Philip Toshio Sudo
Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.
~ Josh Ramsay
(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.
~ Verlyn Klinkenborg
And then there came a sound which Moon-Watcher could not possibly have identified, for it had never been heard before in the history of the world. It was the clank of metal upon stone.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
~ Joey McIntyre
It's still strange.
~ Arthur K. Flam
I just want to hear something I haven't heard before
~ John Peel
We're not sitting with those people. We never saw them before in our lives.
~ Ellen Feldman
I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.
~ Kadeena Cox
I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.
~ Stephen Malkmus
I'd never heard anything about this at all.
~ Wes Anderson
I had never, in my life, imagined I would spend time somewhere like this. Every morning I woke to the sound of the sea breaking gently on the shore, unfamiliar birds calling to each other from the trees.
~ Jojo Moyes
I simply got used to seeing people I didn't recognize wandering around.
~ Jojo Moyes
Life is truly weird...And it's not getting any less weird the farther I get from home.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Horror audiences don't need to see some TV actor they're familiar with.
~ Eli Roth