Unfamiliar Quotes - Page 6

• 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?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Want, Driving, Vehicle

  Jennifer Rardin (2009). “One More Bite: Book five in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.433, Hachette UK

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• In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in the flow of human dealings - I lean my head slowly to one side, reflect on the camellia on the moss on the temple, reflect on a cup of tea, while outside the wind is rustling foliage, the forward rush of life is crystalized in a brilliant jewel of a moment that knows neither projects nor future, human destiny is rescued from the pale succession of days, glows with light at last and, surpassing time, warms my tranquil heart.

  Muriel Barbery

  Heart, Destiny, Jewels

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• 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.

  Kevin Hearne

  Sight, Hug, Sopranos

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• The Sisters vanished entirely then, and Aunt Harriet was standing over Tessa, her face flushed with fever as it had been during the terrible illness that had killed her. She looked at Tessa with great sadness. "I tried," she said. "I tried to love you. But it isn't easy to love a child that isn't human in the least...." "Not human?" said an unfamiliar female voice. "Well, if she isn't human, Enoch, what is she?" The voice sharpened in impatience. "What do you mean, you don't know? Everyone's something. This girl can't be nothing at all.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Children, Love You

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• There are many people who will stay in negative situation because it is familiar, rather than go where there is promise of something good, because that would be something unfamiliar

  Stormie Omartian

  People, Promise, Negative

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• To those humans in whom I have faith; I wish suffering, being forsaken, sickness, maltreatment, humiliation. I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, and the misery of the vanquished. I have no pity for them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not—that one endures' . . . Remember, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

  Richard Linklater

  Passion, Self, Profound

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• If I'm alone at home, I get increasingly restless, bothered by the idea that I'm missing some crucial encounter out there somewhere. But if I'm left by myself in someone else's place, I often find myself a nice sense of peace engulfing me. I love sinking into an unfamiliar sofa with whatever book happens to be lying nearby.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Nice, Lying, Book

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall”, p.54, Faber & Faber

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• When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Sea, Venture

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• The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.

  Chinua Achebe

  Self, Shoes, Understanding

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from May 03, 2015

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• It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.

  Anais Nin

  Insecurity, Hostile

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• If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Grief, Sadness, Mean

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• Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Hurt, Circles

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.

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• 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.

  Graham Greene

  Thinking, Differences, Making A Difference

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  World, Harder, Convincing

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.615, Penguin

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• Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Fashion, Crazy, Shoes

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings”, p.25, Bantam Classics

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• She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, Hair, Voice

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• He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Fear, Insecurity, Misery

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That's the time and place when you can suppose that all the people you meet are nice. It's dream time.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Dream, Nice, Cities

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• 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 analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

  George Will

  Government, Choices, Groups

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• 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 do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Differences, Judging, Heritage

  "White House: Sotomayor Says She Chose Words Poorly in 2001 Remarks". www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2009.

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• 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 is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  New York, Home, Years

  Interview with Michelle King, www.seventeen.com. July 8, 2011.

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• 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 never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  Karl Pilkington

  Book, Holiday, Sleep

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Photography, Travel, Encounters

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

  Thomas Mann

  Beauty, Opposites, Giving

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.24, Vintage

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• 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 complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  Walter Lippmann

  Truth, Honesty, Simple

  Walter Lippmann (1955). “Essays in the Public Philosophy”, p.25, Transaction Publishers

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