Strange famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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-- A. O. Scott -
Identifying pain in others was easy for me. I was drawn to it in some strange perverse way.
-- Abbi Glines -
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
-- Adam Riess -
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.
-- Adam Yauch -
It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking
-- Adele Griffin -
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
-- Agnetha Faltskog -
I thought how lovely and how strange a river is...
-- Aidan Chambers -
Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
-- Albert Camus -
Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.
-- Albert Camus -
Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!
-- Aleister Crowley -
I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.
-- Aleksa Palladino -
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
There are one hundred glow-stars on my bedroom ceiling. (...) Glow-stars are strange. They make the ceiling disappear.
-- Alex Garland -
Vices and virtues are of a strange nature, for the more we have, the fewer we think we have.
-- Alexander Pope -
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
-- Alexei Navalny -
The words 'far, far away' had always a strange charm.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
-- Alfred Noyes -
As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
And it is strange that absence can feel like presence.
-- Ally Condie -
I eat in a strange way, but I enjoy it. Everything became well when I finally understood that I enjoy being hungry. Normally, I only eat in the evening.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.
-- André Aciman -
I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.
-- Andrew Eldritch -
My love is of a birth as rare As 'tis, for object, strange and high; It was begotten by Despair Upon Impossibility.
-- Andrew Marvell -
I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
-- Andrew Mason -
That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
-- Andy Samberg -
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
-- Ani DiFranco -
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.
-- Ann Brashares -
In any relationship we feel an unconscious need to create, as it were, a new picture, a new edition of ourselves to present to the fresh person who claims our interests; for them, we in a strange sense wish to, and do, start life anew.
-- Ann Bridge -
I wonder how many times we dream that kind of dream-something strange and illogical-and fail to realize God is trying to tell us something.
-- Anne Tyler -
I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.
-- Annie Lennox -
We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.
-- Annie Proulx -
It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.
-- Anthony Daniels -
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden.
-- Anthony Hecht -
I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
Grown ups are certainly very strange.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
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.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.
-- Antonio Banderas -
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
-- Aristotle -
Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
-- Arnold Bennett -
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.
-- Arnold J. Toynbee -
Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
-- Arthur Machen -
I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?
-- Audrey Hepburn -
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning.
-- Ayn Rand -
Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.
-- Beetlejuice -
I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.
-- Ben Katchor -
The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.
-- Beth Lisick -
It's a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you - can you trust Him?
-- Beth Moore -
There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.
-- Billy Graham -
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
-- Blaise Pascal -
For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.
-- Bolesław Prus -
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.
-- Brie Larson -
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
-- Camille Claudel -
Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.
-- Carnie Wilson -
It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
-- Caroline Gordon -
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
-- Carson McCullers -
That's the strange thing about a good story. No pleasure if you can't share it.
-- Carsten Jensen -
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
-- Cate Blanchett -
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
-- Celine Dion -
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening.
-- Chad Kroeger -
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
-- Chaim Potok -
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.
-- Charles Haughey -
Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
-- Charles Lindbergh -
I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
-- Charles Lindbergh -
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
-- Charles Nodier -
You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange man." I'm your strange man.
-- Cherry Adair -
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me
-- Chow Yun-Fat -
Well, it's always strange to kiss someone with 10, 20, 40 people around.
-- Chris Messina -
Writers were a strange sort; I knew that much from the newspapers.
-- Chris Priestley -
Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
-- Chris Terrio -
Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.
-- Chuck Jones -
Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.
-- Claes Oldenburg -
Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.
-- Claire Holden Rothman -
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
-- Clarice Lispector -
It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward.
-- Clea DuVall -
I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.
-- Clemence Poesy -
Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.
-- Conrad Aiken -
I have to say, though, it's a little strange doing both because Durant is very straight and stern and austere.
-- Corbin Bernsen -
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
-- Cornelia Funke -
Time is strange. A moment can be as short as a breath, or as long as eternity.
-- Cornell Woolrich -
It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
It would be strange if we came to shun the genuine simply because it resembled the counterfeit.
-- Dallas Willard -
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.
-- Daniel Defoe
