Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting… — Robert A. Heinlein
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched… — Nikolai Gogol
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,… — Jane Jacobs
It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a… — Raymond Carver
Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isnâ€™t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes… — Ali Smith
I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them. — Lars von Trier
What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things has… — Jonathan Lethem
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me… — Emile M. Cioran
It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also? — Peter Ackroyd
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. — Anthony Hecht
You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press. — Lord Buckley
It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought about how wonderfully strange it… — John Green
I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me… — John Green
There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. ... It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I… — J D Salinger
When we complain of having to do the same thing over and over, let us remember that God does not send new trees, strange flowers… — Helen Keller
What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all… — Helen Keller
In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging;… — Virginia Woolf
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and this recharges us… — Brenda Ueland
We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly. — William Shakespeare

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