Strange Quotes
3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort…
— Stephen Dunn
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There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and…
— Aaron Copland
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the…
— Dogen
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I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always…
— Ray Charles
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It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Painting is a strange business.
— J M W Turner
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Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books.
— Guy Browning
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially…
— Savitri Devi
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If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear…
— Peter Gallagher
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It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job…
— Michael Jeter
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The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish...
— Herbert Read
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The hegemony of finance and the banks has produced the indebted. Control over information and communication networks has created the mediatized. The security regime and…
— Michael Hardt
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That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.
— Olaf Stapledon
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IsnÂ’t it strange some people make You feel so tired inside, Your thoughts begin to shrivel up Like leaves all brown and dried!But when youÂ’re…
— Rachel Field
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I think the ears are a strange look for me. Quite big. But I loved the hair down to my shoulders. It felt right. I'm…
— Billy Boyd
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I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else;…
— Mary Hart
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The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his…
— Graham Collier
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The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
— Eric Maisel
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The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
— Eric Maisel
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Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
— Eric Maisel
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I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in…
— Lawren Harris
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Hope is a strange invention - A Patent of the Heart - In unremitting action Yet never wearing out
— Emily Dickinson
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The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past…
— Eugene O'Neill
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I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you…
— Will Rogers
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O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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