Stranger Quotes · Page 6

Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.

— Christina Rossetti

It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a…

— Maya Angelou

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something…

— Oscar Niemeyer

When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible,…

— Bill Vaughan

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And…

— Fernando Pessoa

“You know, when a beautiful bleeding woman shows up at your door, it's common courtesy to let her in or help her…

— Allison Ivy

Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And…

— Nichole Nordeman

A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers.…

— Larry Gelbart

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

— Audrey Niffenegger

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare…

— Diane Setterfield

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention…

— Epictetus

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

— Edward Gibbon

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

— Richard Branson

Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

— Pico Iyer

We wanted it to have a simplicity to it, so that if you're a 12-year-old and you're watching the show and you…

— Ross Duffer

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

There's a part of 'Twin Peaks' that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such…

— Mark Frost

I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking…

— Thomas Pynchon

In Mumbai, I feel like a stranger.

— Gautham Menon

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

— Alexander McCall Smith

“I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a…

— Doug Cooper

Youth is stranger than fiction.

— Rupert Brooke

I'm no stranger to a corner shop. That was my second home, growing up.

— Raye