Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

We seem to be afraid to give the Kurds weaponry. We like to send it for some strange reason through Baghdad, and then they only get a tenth of it.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

We were alone in a strange mansion with a baboon, a crocodile, and a weird cat. And apparently, the entire world was in danger. I looked at Sadie. “What do we do now?

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

What a long strange trip it's been.

What an alliance, huh? A Dark-Hunter and a Spathi united to guard an Apollite. Who would have ever imagined? (Wulf) Love makes strange bedfellows. (Acheron) I thought that was politics. (Wulf) It’s both. (Acheron)

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

What a strange creature man is that he fouls his own nest.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

What a strange thing - that musicians grant permission to places like Ubuweb, and then because it's free, it'll probably be listened to more often than something that is still wrestling with this idea of making a profit.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

What a strange turn of events.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

What’s strange is how many beginning writers seem to think that grammar is irrelevant, or that they are somehow above or beyond this subject more fit for a schoolchild than the future author of great literature.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

What really surprised me was how strange my paintings are anyway. To me, it's like, "Let's paint some portraits and some objects. Don't make it weird, just make it dead straight," but it's still weird. I don't know why. I guess it's just the way I see things.

When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.

When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

When it came to hiding, even Gwin had nothing to teach Dustfinger. A strange sense of curiosity had always driven him to explore the hidden, forgotten corners of this and any other place, and all that knowledge had now come in useful.

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who cannot explain it will not admit that it is inexplicable. This is a strange situation, only partly ascribable to the rather unscientific conviction that evidence will be found in the future. It is due to a psychological quirk [in the minds of its advocates].

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

While so much is said of the inferior intellect of woman, it is by a strange absurdity conceded that very many eminent men owe their station in life to their mothers.

Who did you eat this time? (Acheron) It wasn’t a who, akri. It was something that had hornies on its head like me. There were a bunch of them actually. All of them had hornies and they made a strange moo-moo sound. (Simi)

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

Worldliness is whatever makes sin look normal and righteousness look strange.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.