How Strange Quotes

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long.

Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness.

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.

It is so strange - if anyone takes my name, I have the ability to make them famous.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

A single ear of corn in a large field is as strange as a single world in infinite space.

The New York Quarterly is an amazing, intelligent, crazy, creative, strange, and indispensable magazine.

It is very strange, and very melancholy, that the paucity of human pleasures should persuade us ever to call hunting one of them.

Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!

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 ago.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.

I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.

I never believed in going to America with my show-reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm too insecure, and too proud. It's a strange combination.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Strange the affection which clings to inanimate objects - objects which cannot even know our love! But it is not return that constitutes the strength of an attachment.

Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God.

[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Strange is our situation here upon earth.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

It is strange to think that we might have crossed paths, and still not have known what we were missing.

And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.

My career has been a bit strange. I dont think it took the normal route.

Sometimes I feel a strange exhilaration up here which seems to come from something beyond the mere stimulus of flying.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

Van Gogh is the best example of how a person can be on the right track, propelled by gut feeling and some kind of strange obsessive stubborn conviction, that no one seems to understand.

It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.

I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it.

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; but the fact is that is how many things in life work sadly.