Unfamiliar Quotes - Page 2

• The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.

  Augustus John

  Buttons, Arriving, Failing

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• 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.

  Philip Larkin

  Water, Silence, Black

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  Cities, Lost, Quarters

  "Le citta invisibili (Invisible Cities)". Book by Italo Calvino, 1974.

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• 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 of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.

  Leonard Peikoff

  Men, Ideas, Majority

  Leonard Peikoff (1983). “Ominous Parallels”, p.179, Penguin

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• If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Modern, Symbols

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• 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.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Sunset, Autumn, Heaven

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• 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 on the young," we should add that "Age can be wasted on the aged," unless one's capacity to wonder increases.

  Wolf Kahn

  Names, Age, Add

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• 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.

  Sara Genn

  Mistake, Self, Chance

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• No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.

  Carl Jung

  Language, Interpretation, Hypothetical

  "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Book by Carl Jung, p. 14, 1933.

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

  Carol Ann Tomlinson

  Teaching, Habit, Endeavor

  Source: blogs.edweek.org

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• Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.

  Loren Eiseley

  Song, Stars, Sunshine

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

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Finding Yourself, Territory, Familiar

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• It's a matter of resisting what something made you feel before. And resisting that as a consumer is not easy. I know it isn't for me, and not just when I consume pop culture. When I go into a book and it feels too familiar, I don't have the energy to do it. My whole reason for reading it is to be in a fictive space that is unfamiliar to me.

  Lucy Corin

  Book, Reading, Space

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Reality, Emotional, Abnormal

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• It feels amazing to be back on set. It feels like home, even though the territory is a little bit unfamiliar because it's a new show, it's a new character, but once you get in the groove and you start to settle in and trust the moment, you start to really feel at home.

  Brandy Norwood

  Home, Character, Littles

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• Wherever there is disaster, the newsman is there. If he cannot find disaster, he searches for the odd and the peculiar, the exotic and the unfamiliar. His photographs, seen by millions, make momentary events and strange occurrences all over the world our common property.

  Beaumont Newhall

  World, Events, Peculiar

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

  Robert Heinecken

  Play, Familiar, Objects

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• Who's willing to face the unknown- the difficulties, the disappointments, the surprises of the unfamiliar. If you're going to change, you have to face those things, and who's able? Who has the skillful means, the knowhow, the perseverance, the help, the fortitude to keep going?

  Surya Das

  Perseverance, Disappointment, Mean

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Russia, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Not moving because things are unfamiliar-and you haven't bothered to learn how to operate on them-I think is really a crime. The uncertain is the unknown and the unknown is the future, and you cannot predict the future. But the unfamiliar? You can learn how to operate in that.

  Orit Gadiesh

  Moving, Thinking, Crime

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• The very funny thing about "Like A Rolling Stone" is it was a six minute song, there was no music to read from. And there I was playing this unfamiliar instrument. So I would come in on the upbeat of one. I would wait until the band played the chord, and then as quickly as I could come in play the chord.

  Al Kooper

  Song, Funny Things, Play

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• Let's have some boilerplate language that accurately describes the candidate that we're talking about. If readers are unfamiliar, here are the descriptions of his behavior and here are the links to that behavior that is described.

  Ryan Grim

  Talking, Links, Language

  "Roundtable: Donald Trump's Media Tactics". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, kacu.org. January 30, 2016.

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• Lost really has two disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar falling away, getting lost is about the unfamiliar appearing.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Fall, Two, Getting Lost

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.32, Canongate Books

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• Nothing in music is hard, just unfamiliar.

  Kenny Werner

  Music Is, Hard

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• Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, creative storytelling, edited scriptures, etc. No magic required.

  David G. McAfee

  Christian, Convincing Evidence, Creative

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