Strange Quotes

I've experienced more sunrises with my bandmates and friends out on the road than with my wife, because we're always up at these strange times in the mornings trying to catch a plane.

There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Every craggy and gnarled tree has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it.

People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage and got a job. And so the music became my ticket to education.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

How strange it is to see with how much passion People see things only in their own fashion!

purple does something strange to me

This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

I love changing what I look like because I always feel super strange whenever I do watch something that I'm in.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

There are strange hells within the minds war made.

When the end comes, I hope it’s as strange as that. I hope that the sky tears open and the world is washed with colors that we’ve never seen before.

This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

I have a string of competitiveness in me. It's really strange 'cause it's not something that I would even expect myself to have, but every now and then it kinda sneaks out, you know.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Strange as it may seem, horror loses its power to frighten when repeated too often.

By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?

Marriage should, I think, always be a little bit hard and new and strange. It should be breaking your shell and going into another world, and a bigger one.

It's a strange thing, we think that law brings order. Law doesn't. How do we know that law does not bring order? Look around us. We live under the rule of law. Notice how much order we have?

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment.

I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction...It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.