I never go to the cinema. I can't stand sitting in the dark with strangers -- all of us obliged to share… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
. . . she gave him one of those broad smiles she reserved for strangers, as if she were aware of being… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. When in doubt, tell the truth. If you tell the truth, you don't have… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious… — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
I knew the big following 'Stranger Things' had, and I really liked the show, but even if I hadn't known what the… — Sadie Sink Copy Share Image
“Whether you look at no men at all, or look at every single one - it comes to the same thing. You… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“10. The stranger’s breath also came out in small white clouds. The man was clearly a lot fitter than his charges and… — Robert Reid Copy Share Image
Give me ... a compassionate heart, quickly moved to grieve for the woes of others and to active pity for them, even… — Johann Arndt Copy Share Image
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
“He is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. If all else… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal… — Sarah Weddington Copy Share Image
Nineteen centuries would have been worth very little if we had not made some advance in welcoming the stranger, in feeding the… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship… — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members:… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
It's funny how people will think I'm being sarcastic a lot and joking. So I'll say, "I like your dress," and they'll… — Sarah Silverman Copy Share Image
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as… — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
Freedom of expression is actually a way for people to know themselves better, and to understand themselves better. Because without it, you… — Lucien Bourjeily Copy Share Image
We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
I think I'm writing for an intelligent stranger - you know, in my mind I can't remember who coined that phrase first.… — Jason Isbell Copy Share Image
When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I can be a woodsman if need be. I grew up very close to some forest, and I spent a lot of… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
I'm a weirdo that goes on stage to make strangers laugh, but if I wasn't working, I would just want to be… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Whoever heard me assert that the grey cat playing just now in the yard is the same one that did jumps and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the Dangers of it; and having no Body in Town, at… — Eliza Haywood Copy Share Image
If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the… — Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Copy Share Image
There are prayers that help us last through the day, or endure the night. There are prayers of friends and strangers, that… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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