Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is… — Kirsty Eagar Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or… — Mario Batali Copy Share Image
That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear. — David Allee Copy Share Image
Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange! — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“I remember weeping... at the silence, the stillness, the turning passages and cluttered walls. I supposed then that those things would be… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
“What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstrous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everyone has a bizarre childhood and unusual life experiences, whether they know it or not. There's no such thing as a normal… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn Copy Share Image
“The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
“The distance we set between ourselves and the events of our past life, which reduces their scale, the backlog of things we… — Catherine Millet Copy Share Image
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow,… — Antoine Wilson Copy Share Image
We are separated from one another by an unbridgeable gulf of otherness and strangeness which resists all our attempts to overcome it… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“But just as we can all agree on what is red, even if we will never know if we each see it… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Poetry is the essence of everything, and it’s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
Any artist, in any field, wants to press deeper, to discover further. Image and sound play are among the strongest colors available… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“He was pale as only one state on Bhast dictated—not lacking color necessarily or vitality, certainly. Fey white was more comparable to… — T.A. Miles Copy Share Image
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack… — Alex North Copy Share Image
“...only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
“Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art. — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality. — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted… — Elizabeth Harrower Copy Share Image
Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn’t unriddle them, then you certainly can’t. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she… — Allyse Near Copy Share Image
Although many, we might even say most, strangers in this world become easily the victim of a fearful hostility, it is possible… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“Life, we imagine, is familiar enough until we begin to tell it to another. Then, observe the wonder on their faces--sometimes it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Where is the writer,” he began, “who is unstained by any habits of the human, who is the ideal of everything alien… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
