Strange Quotes

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

It is very strange that men should deny a Creator and yet attribute to themselves the power of creating eels.

Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill.

It's a strange life... you really don't know how you will impact people or how things will play out.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.

Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.

I don't really care if you think I'm strange--I ain't gonna change!

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Strange how blind people are! They are horrified by the torture chambers of the Middle Ages, but their arsenals fill them with pride!

I am infinitely strange to myself.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

Yes, hope is a strange thing. Peace at last. But at what price?

I have this very strange relationship with my work, which is that it's like a conversation between me and it.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

I remember early in my career with Disney, which was a very strange time in the company - there were a couple of executives who were very supportive of me and kind of let me do my own thing.

I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes.

My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

You've got to watch your mind all the time or you'll awaken and find a strange picture on your press.

The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.

Music was a thing of the soul — a rose-lipped shell that murmured of the eternal sea — a strange bird singing the songs of another shore.

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.

Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

We’re damn lucky to have our bodies, these strange, multi-functional machines, that let us leave our legacy on the planet.

Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.

All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.