Unfamiliar Quotes

189 Unfamiliar quotes by 173 unique authors

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years... — Rob Brezsny
(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… — Verlyn Klinkenborg
On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled,… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Hold on to me as we go, as we roll down this unfamiliar road. And although this wave is stringing us along, just know you're… — Phillip Phillips
Use your eyes. Do not enter unfamiliar areas that you cannot observe first. Make it a practice to swing wide around corners, use window glass… — Jeff Cooper
Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence. — John Maeda
I thought I was managing my expectations, but on hearing the news I discovered new and unfamiliar vocal tones. Perhaps I should do another musical. — Colin Firth
I'm definitely working class, and I still believe in those values. I know that losing everything would not be an unfamiliar feeling. Meaning, if you… — John Travolta
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years. May you wake up... and start dancing while you're… — Rob Brezsny
Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar. — Kenny Werner
There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar. — Kenny Werner
By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary.… — William Cronon
Right-thinking people are not supposed to discuss any meteorological or geophysical event - a hurricane, a wildfire, a heat wave, a drought, a flood, a… — Joel Achenbach
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law… — Learned Hand
The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there. — Italo Calvino
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. Nothing shakes the heart so much as meeting-far,… — Cynthia Ozick
Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term,… — William Safire
I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress… — Pranab Mukherjee
I don't think I could play a character that I couldn't relate to somehow. I'm not unfamiliar with frustration, anger, shame, helplessness and a load… — Terry O'Quinn
I'm not a freak. I'm not really crazy or anything. I don't think I'm really abnormal. It's just, like anybody else, I have interests I… — Jim Woodring
I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the… — Mark Twain
A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking… — Andrew Bird
Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
I'm not a World War II buff. I know a little bit about it, I was taught the other side of the story in school,… — Bill Nighy
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar. — Brian Aldiss

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