Strange Quotes
3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors
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I think it's sad, and weird, and strange that [race in casting] is still a thing. It's 2013. Somebody else needs to get their act…
— Shonda Rhimes
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The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.
— Unknown Author
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The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics…
— Albert Schweitzer
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A strange, glazed expression came into his eyes and he staggered around the cabin looking for all the world like a zombie unwilling to take…
— Unknown Author
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I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.…
— Roger Caillois
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I try so hard not to think that I am a stranger in a strange land. But I know that I stand out.
— Martha Raddatz
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Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was…
— Adam Gopnik
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Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very…
— Adam Gopnik
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We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are other choices if…
— Roland Joffe
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I perceive the world in fragments. It is somewhat like being on a very fast train and getting glimpses of things in strange scales as…
— Grace Hartigan
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There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring…
— Ray Harryhausen
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One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events…
— Warren Weaver
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Well, there's nothing strange about Americans as a whole. But, Angelinos are different!
— Paul Hogan
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Indeed, theological discourse offers its strange jubilation only to the strict extent that it permits and, dangerously, demands of it wokman that he speak beyond…
— Unknown Author
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God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with…
— Melissa Coleman
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A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that…
— Niall Williams
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When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors…
— Joey Comeau
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Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also…
— Peter Gould
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I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like…
— Clemence Poesy
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What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a…
— John L'Heureux
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Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.
— Heinrich Heine
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Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.
— Pablo Picasso
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I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or…
— Carrie Brownstein
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really…
— William James
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It's a very strange thing when you make nature illegal.
— Joe Rogan
Who Wrote These Strange Quotes
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