I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art. — Jackson Pollock Copy Share Image
Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions..." Ligeia” — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Using someone else's kitchen feels a little like reading their diary. I'm so anxious.” — Yuhta Nishio Copy Share Image
There is a dysfunctional strangeness to Los Angeles that doesn't exist in any other western city. The roads are crumbling, no-one knows… — Moby Copy Share Image
“If there’s one thing I have learned it’s that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops… — Sarah-Kate Lynch Copy Share Image
Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash - I… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
“The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity” — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy. — Trevor McDonald Copy Share Image
Everything is extraordinarily clear. I see the whole landscape before me, I see my hands, my feet, my toes, and I smell… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Speculative fiction by definition is geared toward an audience that wants strangeness, an audience that wants to spend time in worlds that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“But why would they do that? What is to be asked? He was a man who sees into things -- very ordinary… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My husband is nervous about a lot of things down here, like the monstrous size of the fire ants and the quality… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“অদ্ভুত আঁধার এক এসেছে এ-পৃথিবীতে আজ, যারা অন্ধ সবচেয়ে বেশি আজ চোখে দেখে তারা; যাদের হৃদয়ে কোনো প্রেম নেই—প্রীতি নেই—করুণার আলোড়ন নেই… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist,… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“I was oppressed by the sense of universal strangeness, by the chill of approaching catastrophe, the menace of ruins suspended above; and… — Anna Kavan 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
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte. — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“I look and I look... I must have come to the wrong planet. It's so strange here.” — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future. — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.” — Antoine Volodine Copy Share Image
