Strange Quotes

3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
Nowhere in space will we rest our eyes upon the familiar shapes of trees and plants, or any of the animals that share our world.… — Arthur C. Clarke
The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen… — William Allen White
Those persons are happiest in this restless and mutable world who are in love with change, who delight in what is new simply because it… — Agnes Repplier
He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but… — Bruce Robinson
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't… — Renny Harlin
Many good people, being influenced by the bold spirit of the times, are now seeking surgery for the wife or the husband so they may… — Spencer W. Kimball
It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling. — Kenneth Koch
He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from… — Mark Twain
Play the open variation of the Ruy is my advice to all ordinary club players, and I recently even wrote a book about it, seen… — Bent Larsen
When good is near you, when you have life in yourself, it is not by any known or accustomed way; you shall not discern the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Strange bent over these things, with a concentration to rival Minervois's own, questioning, criticizing and proposing. Strange and the two engravers spoke French to each… — Susanna Clarke
True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November… — Rajneesh
This is a strange game. — Carl Yastrzemski
Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts… — Ellen Glasgow
The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine. — James Dickey
May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years... — Rob Brezsny
A series of accidents creates a positively light-hearted state, out of consideration for this strange power. — Jean Baudrillard
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid.… — Neil Jordan
All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer. — Vincent de Paul
It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it's strange to read something… — Toni Blake
. . . we have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange… — Edward Kasner
I happen to like the strange ones. People who look normal and leads normal lives - they're the ones you have to watch out for. — Haruki Murakami

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