Strangeness Quotes

101 quotes by 90 authors

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
I do not bring any professional knowledge of the issue to bear, but what I do bring to my consideration of immigration is a deepened… — Barbara Jordan
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make… — Edward McKendree Bounds
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art. — Walter Hagen
It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness. — Rose Macaulay
It is the very strangeness of nature that makes science engrossing. That ought to be at the center of science teaching. There are more than… — Lewis Thomas
When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the… — William Barclay
We sleep in language if language does not come to wake us up with its strangeness. — Robert Kelly
Poetry is the essence of everything, and itâ€™s through deep contact with reality and living fully that you reach poetry. Very often I see photographers… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the… — Edward Abbey
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood â€” the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see. — Maurice Sendak
I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer is… — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision. — Sebastian Smee
It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe,… — William Kittredge
Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets — Patricia Cornwell
People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away. Strangers… — John Fowles
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth — Flannery O'Connor
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety… — Siri Hustvedt
The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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