Strange Quotes
3174 Strange quotes by 2032 unique authors
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The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.
— Ben Okri
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group…
— Mary Oliver
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If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some…
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
— Blaise Pascal
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Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we…
— Guy Pearce
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It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean…
— River Phoenix
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Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative…
— Steven Pinker
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America is a country founded on guns. It's in our DNA. It's very strange but I feel better having a gun. I really do. I…
— Brad Pitt
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Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen…
— Richard Pryor
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War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.
— Ernie Pyle
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Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange…
— Jason Reitman
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I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in…
— Jason Reitman
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If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly…
— Ryan Reynolds
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My paintings are very strange - large and empty, like walls. Just the opposite of my writing, which is rich and juicy.
— Tom Robbins
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It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem…
— David Rockefeller
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The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
— Henry Rollins
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
— Wayne Rooney
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One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.
— Salman Rushdie
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems,…
— Salman Rushdie
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there.…
— Babe Ruth
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Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
— Jerry Saltz
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A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of…
— Jerry Saltz
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
— Carl Sandburg
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years…
— Carl Sandburg
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We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
— May Sarton
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