Strange Quotes · Page 60

There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.

— Sylvia Plath

We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.

— Erin Morgenstern

“Strange how a few short hours could change your view of the world.”

— Julie Kagawa

surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain

— Kami Garcia

“The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it.”

— Terry Pratchett

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

— Aaron Peirsol

If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that…

— Walter Becker

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

— David Burtka

Sometimes I forget I have children, which is very strange. I feel guilty about it, as if my inattention will cause something…

— Jennifer Egan

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I…

— Dorothy Hamill

. . . long journeys are strange things: if we were always to continue in the same mind we are in at…

— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp…

— Chiang Kai-shek

. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It…

— Anonymous

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly,…

— Alice Duer Miller

That's the thing about writing for a lot of the villains is that, as a writer, you kind of have to put…

— Paul Dini

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know…

— Caroline Gordon

The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant…

— John Steinbeck

I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models -…

— Mindy Kaling

I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the…

— Michael Ende

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on…

— Anthony de Mello

Ideologists of all kinds find a strange sort of comfort in the madness of the crowd; it confirms them in their suspicion…

— Will Self

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even…

— Jerry Saltz

But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to…

— Jay-Z

People do need a social license to go, "Ha ha ha," and have a good time. It's a strange thing. There's a…

— Dylan Moran

“Strange is the ordinary way in which this journey expects us to shrink from our full potential to fit in.”

— Julieanne O'Connor

“How strange to think that you cannot pass along the discovery.”

— Walker Percy

Relationships between writers and publishers are of course very strange and change all the time, rather like a see-saw.

— Anthony Horowitz

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

— Charlotte Bronte

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

— Nina Simone

I think that it's important not to take [acting] too seriously. It's all pretend. It's a strange job.

— Michael Pitt

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

— Karen Marie Moning

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

— Lauren Oliver

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

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

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

— Ovid

Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.

— Lana Del Rey

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

— Lori Foster

“A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.”

— Dostoyevsky, Fyodor