Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Politics makes strange post-masters.

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun.

Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.

Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

Popular men, They must create strange monsters, and then quell them, To make their arts seem something.

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one thing for Democrats to be in denial about the Republican electoral juggernaut, but it's strange that Republicans are in denial about it too.

School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

She tilted her head, considering the sensation. "It is strange." He gave a hiss of laughter at the words. "It only gets stranger, darling. But we shall try for something more.

Seeing my face on a poster is surreal. You look at it and it's not quite like you, if you know what I mean... it's almost a third person kind of thing. I still find it strange.

She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.

Screenwriting is definitely the majority of my time, but I do still act when stuff comes up. I do a few jobs a year.People ask me that all the time about written something for yourself to star in, and it's strange. I just approach it as two separate careers.

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable.

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

Since puberty I've always had this strange awareness that all the keener experiences I would have in my life would happen later than it would to my contemporaries. When it came to the career thing, I never worried about it. It's better if you're still peaking when you're 60, which I feel I am.

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

So in a strange way, even though Trump is a billionaire, what he's been saying is, "Everything's rigged, it's all corrupt and I'm not corrupt because I'm my own billionaire." Both [Donald] Trump and Bernie Sanders made a lot of hay by making that argument.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

So many of us feel like we're misfits until we finally find our tribe - the other people who are are strange in the same way - and suddenly everything clicks.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.

Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

Sometimes blessings come in strange packages.

Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

Sometimes I'll read a script and think, "That's not how humans behave," or "I don't understand how to do that and make it seem like I'm not some kind of strange alien or on a sitcom." I don't get it, and when I feel that way, I have to listen to my instinct.

Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.