Strange Quotes · Page 47

For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over…

— Ovid

It's a strange environment, being hounded. The paparazzi are cretins.

— Jamie Dornan

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

— James M. Barrie

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

— Anonymous

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

“There is a very strange and undetectable sickness in the modern population that responds to huge doses of vitamin B12.”

— Steven Magee

Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

— Maria Mitchell

The first voice they hear is mine, the first touch they feel is mine, the first human face they see is mine.…

— Roy Horn

A fan once stopped me outside a theatre and gave me as a gift a signed photograph of Sir Laurence Olivier. It…

— David Alan Basche

Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher…

— Franklin Foer

I'm not very good at the accordion. If I played guitar, I wouldn't be on anyone's album. But because I play the…

— Daniel Handler

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it…

— Emile M. Cioran

It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there…

— John Quiggin

We're not as materialistic and income-tax conscious as we think. At the moment our superstitions are tucked away, but come out sometimes…

— Terence Fisher

He wants me to remember his name in my prayers, nothing else he wants, not even me to be there. Strange is…

— Senoraroy

“I was mad of course and still am, but harmless, I passed for harmless, that's a good one. Not of course that…

— Samuel Beckett

“Another strange thing was how absence had intensified my feelings for her. How I craved the sweet everyday reality of just being…

— Matt Haig

It is a little bit strange from when you share a dressing room with someone, you play with them and then all…

— Tom Cairney

True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the…

— Rajneesh

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty…

— Lewis Thomas

Write all the time. I believe in writing every day, at least a thousand words a day. We have a strange idea…

— Theodora Goss

Truth to be told, yes, it does feel very strange to be in the Spain setup without Xavi. Ever since I broke…

— Sergio Busquets

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As…

— Gary D. Schmidt

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Stephenie Meyer

I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.

— Kasey Chambers

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“It's strange, isn't it, how we can push people away because we want to be near them? Isn't that the silliest thing?”

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

“His body had taken over, and he'd fought, and he'd even, in a small, strange, hidden way, enjoyed it.”

— Cassandra Clare

I wear what fits Ghostface; I'm not gonna wear anything that makes me look strange.

— Ghostface Killah

“How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!”

— Anonymous

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible.

— Charles Haughey

I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

— Joan Jett

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

— Penny Marshall

“I wonder how her tribe can make such strange and complicated clothing but not even know how to wear a simple wrap!”

— Shay Savage

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on…

— Lauren DeStefano

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...

— Herbert Read

How strange or odd some'er I bear myself, As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.

— William Shakespeare

I've always had quite long canines. It's a very strange thing. My parents don't have them.

— Luke Evans