Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed ... I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. I'm just a woman in love with another woman.

Interviewers always used to ask me about my pageboy haircut, and it drove me nuts: it almost made me suspect that there was something strange about it. So I cut off my pageboy.

In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

In times when nothing stood but worsened, or grew strange, there was one constant good: she did not change.

In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

I really love it when you get that strange combination of feelings that play against each other.

i realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

I really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.

I realized the other day that I've lived in New York longer than I've lived anywhere else. It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

I remember that feeling of skin. It's strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it.

I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.

I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I dont know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

Isn't it a little strange the FBI director has a private conversation with the president. Instead of saying to the president, Mr. President, you're new to this job. You're not a legal law enforcement guy. What you're saying is inappropriate to me.

Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?

Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.

Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.

I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he’d brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

I suppose expectations are strange and I shy away from them. And the whole point of being an actor is to connect.

I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

I think I have a very strange, hybrid accent, and I've worked very hard to get a solid American accent, which is what I use most of the time.

It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.

It had never occurred to me before but everything in New York is built upon another thing, nothing is entirely by itself, each thing as strange as the last, and connected.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

I thought it very strange, and very sad, that the fairy kingdom largely appears to be English. I thought it was time for some regional representation. And the Nac Mac Feegle are, well, they're like tiny little Scottish Smurfs who have seen Braveheart altogether too many times.

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

It is a strange form of anger, difficult to cure, when two friends turn upon each other in hatred.

It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.

It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.