Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

You want to get attention? Then, be something weird, do something weird! You want to get even more attention? Then, be something very weird, do something very weird!

Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.

A charging black rhinoceros is nothing to mess with. When it is headed straight toward you, it is the ultimate exercise in sphincter control. In my case, it was a strange bit of weather that caused one to charge me.

Acting is a really strange thing. You have to know when you're put in a bad situation, but you also have to be willing to do something very strange.

Acting is just a job at the end of the day, and its a very strange one.

A divided heart offers a strange sensation.

Adversity makes strange bedfellows.

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It was strange, but nice, too.

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

A guy in an SUV tried to kill me.” “That’s strange.” “Why?” “Because the guy I hired doesn’t drive an SUV.” “That is strange.

A king who dies on the cross must be the king of a rather strange kingdom.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of.

All life passes like a fast flowing river and how strange to see that happiness increases this speed! Yes, a happy life passes faster!

A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.

All things must change To something new, to something strange.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

All that money stuff was so strange; all it ever meant to me was freedom from worry. I'm happier now than I've ever been but I still wish I had that money.

And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.

And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

Any view of things that is not strange, is false.

Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.

A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

At this point, I don't care much where I live. I don't feel as attached to Russia's native woods as I was once. I used to dearly love Moscow, even though I wasn't born there; but now, it's changed so much that it's a strange city for me. I had a bond with my friends, but most of them are gone; I haven't made new ones, and the ones that I do have are mostly in Germany and in America.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.