Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

Everything was strange and beautiful and swollen with possibilities.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

For someone like you who's a British citizen this might seem strange. How can you ban a language? It turns out that you can. During the dictatorship it was illegal to speak Catalan. This is an experience that we Catalans have all had to varying extents. Some more tense than others, but it's something we all share.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the middle of the target.

For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty.

For the first actual comedy-comedy I did, I took a comedy class in New York, which was full of slightly unhinged people. It was a pretty depressing crowd, very angry and strange people. But then I took a class at the Upright Citizens Brigade and I loved those people.

Friendship is a strange animal. It only thrives in voluntary enjoyment of each other's company, in the pleasure of nonobligatory connection. I repeat: You owe me nothing.

Freedom came in strange forms and from unexpected directions.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

From my earliest youth I've been riddled with angst about the homogeneity of the world and have tried to do things to break it: attacking abercrombie & fitch in the mall with a plunger, posting strange statues made of garbage around my town, different kinds of interventions, parades and experiments. I've always cared a lot about difference.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

Go see old virgins! Now ask a strange boy out, you shy, Retarded thing!

Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

Having despised us, it is not strange that Americans should seek to render us despicable; having enslaved us, it is natural that they should strive to prove us unfit for freedom; having denounced us as indolent, it is not strange that they should cripple our enterprises.

He didn’t know where the thought had come from, or what strange corner of his brain had come to that conclusion, because he was quite certain it would be nearly impossible to live with her, but somehow he knew that it wouldn’t be at all difficult to love her.

Heaven must be populated with some rather strange creatures if all they lived for was to go to a place where they can strum harps for eternity.

Having wrinkles is at once strange and exciting.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.

Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

Hitchcock had a very strange mind.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

How strange it was that a dream, once realized, could quickly turn mundane.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

How strange! You lose a little from you and you cry. And your whole life is wasting and you're laughing

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.

Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life