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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

Nothing strange should befall us, but only that which has long belonged to us. We will gradually learn to realize that that which we call destiny goes forth from within people, not from without into them.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

O Death, O Beyond, Thou art sweet, thou art strange!

O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.

Once that Gauntlet is on, as the poster of Doctor Strange says, "the impossibilities are endless.

One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make them inevitable. Hence the strange blindness of economists to what would actually happen when one does exchange things if there isn't money in such contexts.

One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

Once upon a time, I awoke in a strange place.

One of the strange things about friendship is that time together isn't cancelled out by time apart. One doesn't erase the other or balance it on some invisible scale. You can spend a few hours with someone and they will change your life, or you can spend a lifetime with a person and remain unchanged.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

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

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

People are strange when you're a stranger.

One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

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.

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

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

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

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.

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

Politics makes strange post-masters.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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