Stranger Quotes · Page 44

I've never understood people who treat their loved ones worse and with less respect than they would a total stranger or minor…

— Lynn Coady

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.

— Judith Crist

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

— Edward Hirsch

Real science can be far stranger than science fiction and much more satisfying.

— Stephen Hawking

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was…

— Patti Smith

It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.

— Howard Rheingold

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

— Oscar Niemeyer

I'm not paranoid, but I am cautious. I don't drink tea with strangers, I don't fly Aeroflot and I avoid certain countries…

— Garry Kasparov

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is…

— John Norman

I like doing horror films. I think it's helped me as an actress because you have to run and scream and cry…

— Alexandra Daddario

Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of…

— Dennis Nurkse

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk…

— Jennifer Chiaverini

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find…

— Charlotte Bronte

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled…

— Mark Twain

I can assure you that it feels even stranger to me than it probably does to you to have seen so much…

— Pippa Middleton

I can not stay at the place when a stranger starts talking to me. I will try to cut the speech as…

— Vijay Sethupathi

He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it…

— Evagrius Ponticus

“The attraction remains because there is something about him that I can't reach, something strange and estranging. I like seeing him from…

— Siri Hustvedt

“And New York City is details too... It's full of people who have no idea they're really just art to other passersby.…

— Hannah Brencher

Everybody's playing the game but nobody's rules are the same... Never make a promise or plan. Take a little love where you…

— Tim Rice

I think, as a comedian, the funniest you can be is with people you know, and [whom] you've known for years, in…

— Ricky Gervais

I mean obviously we're all dealing with a lot more strangers due to the web. I'd say it has more to do…

— Miranda July

Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room,…

— Markus Zusak

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For…

— Anonymous

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

Your family tells you they're proud of you. But when a stranger tells you that, it moves you.

— Alex Cora

I don't know what she is now. A stranger, mostly. It's as if she has become a part of a different world,…

— Lois Lowry

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a…

— Stephen King

Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

— Anthony Bourdain

“Isn't that how falling in love so often works? Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your…

— Kate Bolick

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

— Ali Landry

“Look, buddy, I see a stranger show up acting odd, then giving me attitude, I start thinking about breaking something other than…

— David E. Manuel

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

— Mary McCarthy

[F]rank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at…

— Sherman Alexie

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

— Anonymous

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

— Georg Simmel

“I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either.”

— Charles Fort

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

— Arthur Miller

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

— Anonymous

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

— Richard Posner