Pico Iyer describes his writing as "intimate letters to a stranger," and I think that is what the writing process is. It… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I spent a year pulling all-nighters and driving around in a really tiny fuel-efficient car relying on the kindness of strangers and… — Dar Williams Copy Share Image
One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people,… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like I'm making a connection with a stranger, but then it turns out I'm not. Like, I was in… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister.… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“I brought to mind the image of the stranger lying there in the first light of dawn: the slight growth of whiskers… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Every family had its own peculiar cult, to which no stranger was ever admitted, and which alone could appease and satisfy the… — Helen Bosanquet Copy Share Image
It's Will Ferrell, he does Will Ferrell movies. But if you really look at it, he tries to do something different with… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is… — Lê Thi Diem Thúy Copy Share Image
She had said she didn’t feel fear, but it was a lie; this was her fear: being left alone. Because of one… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
What is a child, but a piece of the parent enrapt up in another skin? And yet our dearest children are but… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult… — John Berger Copy Share Image
Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never… — Scotty McCreery Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel I know strangers Better than I know my friends Why must a beginning Be the means to an end?… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
“Trying to have your first book read when you’re a perfect stranger feels like waving at people, in a dark room, when… — Charles Bonnaire Copy Share Image
If I'm receiving an email from a stranger, I usually like it to be properly thoughtful and explanatory, and not just hitting… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A… — Henny Youngman Copy Share Image
I was out walking the other evening. This fellow accosted me, and asked if that was the moon up there in the… — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers,… — Rita Gelman Copy Share Image
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the term 'guilty pleasure,' because it implies I should feel ashamed for liking something. A real guilty pleasure… — Bill Hader Copy Share Image
The first time I met my father was when I was 25. I was visiting here in Los Angeles, I had not… — Erika Jayne Copy Share Image
I definitely don't read any tabloids. You really have to find a way to separate the words of people you respect -… — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from reconnecting with your past. There's such a gulf between yourself and who… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
No, not at all. Gosh, I don't know. A long way away. I just sort of hitched a lift with this man.… — Rose Tyler Copy Share Image
“Is this what comes at the end, I wondered? Maybe death is the great equaliser, the one big thing that can finally… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
