Stranger Quotes · Page 25

It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

— Mae West

They say truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, but there's such a thing as believability when you're writing a novel.

— Kevin Kwan

We have a saying that a stranger's soul is like a black box. Which is why I would not want to analyze…

— Garry Kasparov

It's really hard for me to be open and be completely honest with a stranger.

— Anderson East

As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living.

— T. S. Eliot

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should…

— Walt Whitman

For me, at least, much of the German I see and hear sounds stranger than Swedish, a language of which I unfortunately…

— Heinrich Boll

“Don’t look over your shoulder, don’t look in the sky the ocean is a stranger, the sun is a lie.”

— Lloyd Poast

“We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Love for me is my North Star. It's the highest form of grace. And I love that there's different levels and different…

— Ben Harper

As a result of all this hardship, dirt, thirst, and wombats, you would expect Australians to be a dour lot. Instead, they…

— Douglas Adams

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey,…

— Rumi

Some people get very successful for something they're very cynical about - like Alec Guinness in 'Star Wars.' He thought it was…

— David Harbour

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in…

— Wallace Shawn

Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to…

— Arthur Miller

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these…

— Hilary Swank

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want…

— Ann Brashares

I love scrapbooks. They are one of the finest ways of dejunking life and abode... A good scrapbook is interesting and inspiring…

— Don Aslett

It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he…

— Charles Dickens

“He inquired next what Allan had seen in the stranger to take such a fancy to? Allan had seen in him—what he…

— Wilkie Collins

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was…

— John Connolly

I think making things that aren't necessarily shiny, happy feelings, putting them in that environment is sometimes an easy way to deal…

— Dave Matthews

So, most of it was done over the phone. But one of the first things I did as a director, because it's…

— Dustin Hoffman

That's all I've ever dreamed of, Mr. Bones. To make the world a better place. To bring some beauty to the drab…

— Paul Auster

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the…

— Berhan Ahmed

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“If her own family treated her the way the did, why would a complete stranger act any differently?”

— Lizzy Ford

It's pure light when someone says they want to help a stranger in need for the greater good.

— Michelle Buteau

But uhh, a thug changes, and love changes and best friends become strangers, word up

— Nas

So I came to see him. To listen for a while and there he was this young boy. A stranger to my…

— Roberta Flack

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

— Elisabeth Hasselbeck

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have…

— Brad Lidge

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

— Rita Dove

I'd love a chance to host something like The Golden Globes. Or be a part of a show like 'Stranger Things.' Or…

— Matt Rife

I live in a bad neighborhood. Why, I saw two complete strangers share a taxi - yeah, one guy took the radio…

— Rodney Dangerfield

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

— Mark Twain

Is amazed at how, in a minute, someone you thought you knew through and through can become a complete stranger :(

— Sarah Moores

Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.

— Sri Chinmoy

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

— Edward Gibbon

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

— Saadi