Stranger Quotes

1490 quotes by 1112 authors

Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some… — Arthur Conan Doyle
No oneâ€™s forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick… — Dave Eggers
I don't think being obsessed with sex is any stranger than being obsessed with stamp collecting. — Annie Sprinkle
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch… — Bill Simmons
There was a weird intimacy, sitting in a car together. Couples sat in cars. Cops and their partners. Strangers became unstrange, sharing a windshield view… — Jerry Stahl
I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight,… — Cornell Woolrich
My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .… — Henry David Thoreau
When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,… — Henry David Thoreau
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. — Saint Patrick
Theatre is a concentrate of life as normal. Theatre is a purified version of real life, an extraction, an essence of human behaviour that is… — Eleanor Catton
The future is sooner and stranger than you think. — Reid Hoffman
In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is.… — Scott Simon
As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going. — Fiona Shaw
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise. — George Whitman
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral… — W. Somerset Maugham
That books, a commodity little changed since Caxton's day, should have turned out to be the trailblazers of retailing on the internet is one of… — Bryan Appleyard
Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The… — Marya Mannes
More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady. — Amy Sedaris
A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But… — Thomas Traherne

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