Best 947 quotes in «strange quotes» category

Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation.

Most of my influences from outside the commerical strange fiction genre came in with university, discovering James Joyce and Wallace Stevens, Blake and Yeats, Pinter and Borges. And meanwhile within those genres I was discovering Gibson and Shepard, Jeter and Powers, Lovecraft and Peake.

My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would use in front of me, and I picked up from him many great phrases - the English have a lot of great idioms for sweating. I don't know why that is. But that's what we do. I feel like it's particularly our country; probably everywhere has a lot of idioms for sweating. He always said, "I'm sweating like a glassblower's asshole," which I always found an incredibly strange and yet vivid image.

Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

My name, as you may have guessed, is Theodore. I come from a strange stock. The members of my family were mostly epileptics, vegetarians, stutterers, triplets, nailbiters. But we've always been happy.

Music making features real-time creation, real-time decisions and actions. It's basically improvisation, which is the stuff of everyday life. In the realm of discourse about music, improvisation is marginal, but in the realm of doing it, it's omnipresent. Strange distinction here: we're improvising all the time, but when we tend to talk about music, we tend to talk about objects that are fixed, like recordings, scores, pieces.

My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

Near my apartment in London, a lot of the pubs kind of look identical, which is very strange.

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.

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.

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

Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

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

Politics makes strange post-masters.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

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

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