Unfamiliar Quotes

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.

(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 the very bedrock of our being.

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

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

Logically there is nothing new to say about the New. Or maybe it's just a problem of articulating unfamiliar perceptions.

There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

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, far away-what you last met at home.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

When you teach on a familiar text, you're capitalizing on common knowledge. When you teach on an unfamiliar text, you're having to build a bridge of understanding, and we need to do that as well.

Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.

Design is about crafting an experience that is unfamiliar enough to feel novel, yet familiar enough to instill confidence.

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 the golden suffusions of autumn.

If you find yourself as a person in unfamiliar territory, you will grasp on to what is already familiar.

Paralysis seems to happen on the steepest slope of the survival arc—where almost all hope is lost, when escape seems impossible, and when the situation is unfamiliar to the extreme.

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

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 school students.

Teaching is a very habit-bound endeavor. We're unsettled by the unfamiliar. We're creatures of habit too.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he's been fighting against are gone.

But that methodology where players are pitted against other unfamiliar players has been so widely adapted now that anybody plays with everybody.

What everyone is always afraid of is the unknown, or the unfamiliar. You got to have a look for a character that is mysterious and menacing, and doesn't quite look like what we've seen before.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

What I liked about working with Palmbomen and him being a super crate digger and super well known with all this exotic and unfamiliar music to me.

I am interested in the relationships and play between an unfamiliar picture/object context and the familiar photographic image.

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.

The tendency of modern American women to exclaim 'Hiiiiiiiiiiii!' in soprano octaves and hug each other upon sight can be disconcerting to those unfamiliar with it.

I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.

It's like picking up an unfamiliar piece of sheet music & starting to stumble through it, only to realize it is a melody you'd once learned by heart, one you can play without even trying.

When a possibility is unfamiliar to us, we do not even think about it.

I am driving an unfamiliar vehicle down a narrow road I've never seen before. Do you really want to be pissing me off right now?

I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

How strange too and unfamiliar to think that one had been loved, that one's presence had once had the power to make a difference between happiness and dullness in another's day.

Adam lay perfectly still, little groans escaping from his lips. I looked at the bow, looked at my hands, looked at Adam's face and felt this surge of love, lust, and an unfamiliar feeling of power.

They be starin at the money like it's unfamiliar

I think that simply nudging yourself into unfamiliar settings - physical or emotional - can produce surprising results on the writing front.

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years.

Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

We tend to get irritated when we see somebody doing something that is unusual and unfamiliar to our thinking

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

Take the unpopular route. Use the road no one travels by. Think of doing what is uncommon but remarkable. You have absolutely nobody to overtake you on the empty road!

Be strong and courageous, along unfamiliar paths, God will guide you.