Uncleanness is so much the attribute of officials that one could almost regard them as enormous parasites...In the same way the fathers… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
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I was born odd. I was a strange child. My grandmother was always praying over me. She was always rubbing me and… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
Only thin, weak thinkers despise fairy stories. Each one has a true, strange fact hidden in it, you know, which you can… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I never thought anything was strange in Puerto Rico other than the big mosquitos; because I was born there, nothing was really… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
The strange, wonderful stories of Doctor Olaf van Schuler's Brain introduce us to the tremendously gifted Kirsten Menger-Anderson, a writer whose subject… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
When I realized I could actually make my decisions, it was a very strange feeling. It's like a switch went off in… — Taylor Momsen Copy Share Image
At some point I just acknowledged, at least to myself, that I had a great deal of respect for people of faith.… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
We wait, all, for a story of us that shall reach to where we are. We listen for our own speaking; and… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the… — Agnes Sligh Turnbull Copy Share Image
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect… — Adam Riess Copy Share Image
Loving photography and wanting to be a painter, it all ended up in the process of filmmaking. It's strange professionally be to… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going… — Majel Barrett Copy Share Image
Well, I think I was a very strange child who wrote loads of plays and made my sister perform them. But I… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
One thing about this face was very strange and startling. You could not look upon it in its most cheerful mood without… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
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It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
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Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the only thing that had tethered her to the earth had been him and it was strange, but she felt welded to… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The thing with America is that... however you want to denigrate them for being crass or whatever, with a film that they… — John Michael McDonagh Copy Share Image
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Republicans are afraid to act in accordance with the election results. Republicans seem to be in denial about election results. It's one… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
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These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
I'm not just influenced by the '60s - it's who I am. I grew up with Allen Ginsberg and Che Guevara. I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
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