I was a stranger in a familiar land.

There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends

— Cesare Pavese

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me…

— Harriet Tubman

We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for…

— Chief Seattle

To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my…

— Wang Wei

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with…

— David S. Goyer

My pet peeve is hearing a knock on the bathroom door followed by the familiar words, 'What are you doing in there?

— Karen Scalf Linamen

I don't look to play people that are familiar. I look to play people that are different, challenge, unknown, foreign, and therefore scary.

— Sarah Jessica Parker

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it…

— Elizabeth Strout

Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And…

— Susanne Bier

This kind of horror has become all too familiar to us. As parents, Cindy and I offer our prayers to the memory of the…

— John McCain

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings…

— Thomas Hardy

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places.…

— Steve Carell

There was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar…

— Cornelia Funke