Quotes About Unfamiliar

The pine needles stretch their tongues and sing an unfamiliar nocturnal song. Each tongue is so small that it cannot be heard; together the sound is so deep and powerful that it could level the hills if it wished.

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake.

Sua vida lhe era tão estranha que não parecia mais ser sua, se é que algum dia tinha sido.

seen him before. Not

Wasing the where of needing," she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.

So warm. Comfortable. And strikingly unfamiliar. What was this peace? This place without fear?

It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar.

In my mind, declaring that an unfamiliar task will yield low-hanging fruit is almost always an admission that you have little insight about what you're setting out to do.

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.

I didn't know Ian Smith myself!

I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.

I mean, I love California, but LA to me is still a strange place.

He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger

Mas um estranho em uma terra estrangeira, ele não é ninguém; os homens não o conhecem, e não conhecer é não cuidar.

But I did not return until half past four this morning and I distinctly remember stubbing my toe on the stairs. I am as drunk as a skunk, Drumknott, which of course means skunks are just as drunk as I. I must say the term is unfamiliar to me, and I had not thought hitherto of skunks in this context, but Mustrum Ridcully was kind enough to enlighten me.

Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in.

I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.

What kind of pipe is that?" Maya asks. "I have never seen a pipe like that before." A.J.'s first impulse is to cover Maya's eyes, but then he laughs. Had Friedman actually traveled on the plane with drug paraphernalia? He turns to his daughter. "Maya, do you remember when we read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland last year?

I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.

There was something uncomfortably intimate in Hadith's manner, an intimacy I was unfamiliar with.

The twins exchanged a secret glance, but it did not altogether exclude him. They were willing to play, he felt. He experienced a delirious sense of weakness, as if the performance was not his, but theirs. It was a strange and unfamiliar sensation, but not unpleasant.

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known