It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The reason people get lost in thought is that it's unfamiliar territory.” — Sean Keogh Copy Share Image
“I am a book-worm and a scholar, and am unfamiliar with practical affairs.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is a tendency in our planning to confuse the unfamiliar with the improbable. — Thomas Schelling Copy Share Image
Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes… — Beck Copy Share Image
A great movie, in my opinion, is one that tells a familiar story in an unfamiliar way. — Christian Keiber Copy Share Image
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years... — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
“We become so used to the familiar that we begin to doubt the unfamiliar, until our eyes are opened and we see .” — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he's been fighting against are gone. — Chuck Todd Copy Share Image
Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance… — Erin McKean Copy Share Image
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
In order to educate man to a new longing, everyday familiar objects must be shown to him with totally unexpected perspectives and… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Real myths are often strange and startlingly unfamiliar, and don't always give up their meanings easily; you have to tease them out,… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
“It is right that you should read according to your temperament, occupations, hobbies, and vocations. But it is a sign of great… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the… — Beaumont Newhall Copy Share Image
“She misunderstood my method, in my opinion, not realizing that my approach, rather obscure to those unfamiliar, was based on the idea… — Jean-Philippe Toussaint Copy Share Image
Beauty in music is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair. Many sounds that… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
The producer beating a new path for himself through the wilderness is going to do the thing 'differently,' of course. But after… — Irving Thalberg Copy Share Image
I always wanted to make a light that looks like the light you see in your dream. Because the way that light… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history… — Rodney Brooks Copy Share Image
All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was… — Stefan Kieszling Copy Share Image
It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
The only reason people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. — Paul Fix Copy Share Image
When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image