Unfamiliar Quotes

189 Unfamiliar quotes by 173 unique authors

The bold and discerning writer who, recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow at all, makes new words and uses… — Ambrose Bierce
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or… — Abraham Maslow
Moments when the original 'poet' in each of us created the outside world for us, by finding the familiar in the unfamiliar, are perhaps forgotten… — Marion Milner
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance… — Leonard Peikoff
If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read
It is the sense of unfamiliar envelopment that is impressive, whether in the living grays of hoarfrost, the crimson of the heavens at sunset, or… — Walter J. Phillips
I like being old, even if the names I hear are more and more unfamiliar. Maybe, to paraphrase Goethe who said that, "Youth is wasted… — Wolf Kahn
When general relativity was first put forward in 1915, the math was very unfamiliar to most physicists. Now we teach general relativity to advanced high… — Brian Greene
Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition. — Cyril Falls
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always… — Bell Hooks
It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot… — Ang Lee
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The… — Walter Lippmann
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to… — Thomas Mann
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. — Marshall McLuhan
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've… — Karl Pilkington
England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this… — Daniel Radcliffe
My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply… — Sonia Sotomayor
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic… — George Will
Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected… — David Wojnarowicz
There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country,… — Betty Smith
The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve… — Mark Rothko
I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James! — Ellen DeGeneres
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look… — E. M. Forster
He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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