How Strange Quotes

#1. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. It's strange to play outdoors, especially in the daytime. But we're figuring it out. The rules are different for festival shows - how you talk to the crowd, how you can try to get them involved. Things are just a little different, and I think we've learned to adapt our show.

Andrew Dost

#3. Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?"
"You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.

Libba Bray

#4. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.

Robert A. Heinlein

#5. When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.

Patricia McCormick

#6. And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea, but for now we are young, let us lay in the sun, and count every beautiful thing we can see ... Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

Jeff Mangum

#7. I think it's strange for people to read about themselves, no matter what's portrayed or how it's portrayed. But they get used to it, and I think they're fine with it.

Robert Kurson

#8. Of course she will put on a cap,' said Sophie, with a pitying look. 'How could she possibly receive strange gentlemen without a cap? But her hair must be dressed under it.

Patrick O'Brian

#9. I think it's a very strange question that I have to defend myself. I don't feel that. You are all my guests, it's not the other way around, that's how I feel.

Lars Von Trier

#10. It is strange how we hold on to the pieces of the past while we wait for our futures.

Ally Condie

#11. ... it was strange how afraid he was of her answer, even though he knew she desired him. Desire and love were two different things.
Sweat was damp on his skin, fear tight in his chest.
Love me.

Emily Gee

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

Gustav Mahler

#13. There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

Dominic Cooper

#14. If you want to understand the jungle, you can't be content just to sail back and forth near the shore. You've got to get into it, no matter how strange and frightening it might seem.

Carl Jung

#15. How strange a thing is the heart of man!

Murasaki Shikibu

#16. Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?

Alan Moore

#17. I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Sylvia Plath

#18. You can go to Spain, and Cubans are looked down upon. It's strange how people chop up where you're from.

Prefuse 73

#19. How quickly the new and strange becomes old and familiar.

Garon Whited

#20. It's strange how someone can walk into your life, shatter the windows, break down your doors, scatter your belongings, and then walk away without having the slightest inkling of the storm they'd brought.

Leylah Attar

#21. When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance ... that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#22. I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

Vladislav Tamarov

#23. How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.

Patrick Kavanagh

#24. Not quite understanding how, he knew what he needed to do. He didn't get it. The feeling - the epiphany - was a strange one, foreign and familiar at the same time. But it felt ... right.

James Dashner

#25. It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept ... No matter how strange.

K.C. Randall

#26. I thought to myself that a conversation was a strange thing that could take you almost anywhere. Often you were left stranded miles from where you had started, with no idea about how to get back.

Sophie Hannah

#27. So how exactly was I supposed to wrap my head around the whole thing? I wasn't entirely sure I could trust this guy. I mean, this was it? Really? My life ends and some creep in a grungy leather jacket takes me away? No, I couldn't accept that. -Jen

Nessie Strange

#28. Strange, how quickly a king could become an animal. Or half a king half an animal. Perhaps even those we raise highest never get that far above the mud.

Joe Abercrombie

#29. How strange to have a sister, Valarie thought. Someone you might have been.

Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

#30. It is strange how sad it can be - sunlight in the afternoon, don't you think?

Jean Rhys

#31. It is strange how custom can mould our tastes and ideas: many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world.

Emily Bronte

#32. If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.

Ryan Reynolds

#33. The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed.

Sienna Miller

#34. I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

Rene Denfeld

#35. The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them.

Charles Horton Cooley

#36. Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Louis L'Amour

#37. Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.

Thom Yorke

#38. How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!

William Dean Howells

#39. Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

Ransom Riggs

#40. How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

Marcus Aurelius

#41. It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

Franny Billingsley

#42. It's a strange life, isn't it? ... A Rom with no tribe. No matter how hard you look, you can never find a home. Because to us, home is not a building or a tent or a vardo ... home is a family.

Lisa Kleypas

#43. But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

Frederick Pollock

#44. People love destroying mankind, for some strange reason. You make a movie about mankind's destruction, you're going to fill seats. People just love the idea. For a couple thousand years, we've been dreaming up how we're all going to disappear and fade away from this planet.

Michelle Rodriguez

#45. I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and on like deserts, dry and desolate, with an unpredictable, shifting sea of dunes.

Marisha Pessl

#46. In The Tricky Art of Co-Existing, Sandi Toksvig navigates life's little dilemmas with wit and not-so-common sense. You'll learn the strange history of common courtesy and the one true secret of social success: how to not drive everyone around you crazy.

William Poundstone

#47. There is value in everybody's gift. No matter how hard to find or strange it is.

Tori Amos

#48. It is strange how intricately life hangs in the scales, and how unrelated events and single decisions alter the outcomes. Some remote land ten thousand miles from me, some land unfamiliar to me, held the key to my future.

Sara Niles

#49. How strange it is, to be standing leaning against the current of time.

W.G. Sebald

#50. It's the strange thing about you mystics, how often your little ecstasies wear a skirt.

John Updike

#51. I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

John Darnielle

#52. Our present culture may be largely shaped by this strange idea of isolating children's thought from adult thought. Perhaps the way our culture educates its children better explains why most of us come out as dumb as they do, than it explains how some of us come out as smart as they do.

Marvin Minsky

#53. There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

Henry Adams

#54. I know what it's like to not fit in. Everyone thinks you're strange because you like to be alone, when really you just don't know how to say hello," Meryn whispered to the tiny creature. He looked up, surprised, and nodded.

Alanea Alder

#55. War is strange. In the beginning it is about people; in the end it is about power. Power couldn't care less how many die.

Cristiane Serruya

#56. Strange how knowing our story had no happy ending had freed us to live in the moment. We weren't guy and girl. We weren't damaged and terminal. We were just now.

Elizabeth Langston

#57. We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

John Archibald Wheeler

#58. It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

Jenny Downham

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

Bertha Von Suttner

#60. You can't understand how strange it was to be a sculptor who exhibited photographs. (On exhibitions of his earthworks and land art pieces.)

Dennis Oppenheim

#61. Strange, how lovers cannot bear that the world should not know their love

Ruskin Bond

#62. I've been so worried about strange men following you around that I forgot how dangerous Homecoming Queens can be.

Kimberly Derting

#63. Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

George Gershwin

#64. Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

Auliq Ice

#65. How strange and frightening and intoxicating life could be.

Magnus Flyte

#66. How strange it must be, I thought, to be wed not merely as husband and wife but Cruarch and Queen, trading men's lives and the wealth of nations as love-tokens.

Jacqueline Carey

#67. As I descended the stairs, the years between us seemed accumulated everywhere, filling the house, and it seemed strange to me, how love and habit blurred so thoroughly to make a life.

Sue Monk Kidd

#68. If what they kept and clung to seemed strange, part of me sympathized: it was all they had left of their home. Just because they knew it was gone didn't mean they knew how to let it go.

Ransom Riggs

#69. The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

Zadie Smith

#70. It's strange how interesting your dreams are, but when someone tries to tell you their dream you're just like "WHATEVER! Why don't you send me an e-mail so I can delete it?"

Jim Gaffigan

#71. How strange! Life gets easier when we get better.

Debasish Mridha

#72. It's so strange how one day you can be on this earth, and the next day not.

R.J. Palacio

#73. I think it's kind of strange when people talk about how hyped-up the movie is. It almost sets you up for a bigger fall.

Jonah Hill

#74. Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady ... should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

Alan Brennert

#75. People think it's strange how briskly I move through museums. Sure, I could stand in front of each piece and stare at it for a good long time. But that's not me.

Eli Broad

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

Ben Okri

#77. Isn't it strange how we move out lives for another day? Like skipping a beat, what if a great wave should wash us all away?

Dave Matthews

#78. If you've always known how to look at someone, it's strange when that directive changes -Cassia, 'Matched

Ally Condie

#79. Strange how potent cheap music is.

Noel Coward

#80. Strange: how when a light is extinguished, it's immediately as if it has never been. Darkness fills in again, complete.

Joyce Carol Oates

#81. It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Veronica Roth

#82. And I wondered then, how do we ever know what beauty lies inside of people, and the strange ways this world works to lure that beauty outward?

Douglas Coupland

#83. I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

Philipp Meyer

#84. It's strange how a single person can be as nourishing, as necessary as food to make you feel alive

Katie Kacvinsky

#85. How strange! A dog is more humane than a human is.

Debasish Mridha

#86. How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Oscar Wilde

#87. How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

William Faulkner

#88. Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#89. It was strange how nothing could change while everything did.

James S.A. Corey

#90. It is, indeed, strange how often persons, living in other respects quite unobjectively, can suddenly become acutely objective about some specific concern of their own.

Anthony Powell

#91. Strange, but I actually wished I was hungover. Because when you're so busy thinking about how awful you feel you forget for a moment how awful you are. Because pain can be its own relief. Because throwing up is a super-effective way to stay a size 0.

Elizabeth Little

#92. Isn't it strange how most of us reach an age where we just fold up our imaginations and stuff them in our closets? I think I've learned more about you from these impossible dreams than from anything else you've said.

Jeffrey Overstreet

#93. Strange, how seldom a person knows which days of his life are tragic and which are happy,

Tom Reiss

#94. Clear. Cold. Empty. Like how I feel right now. Love is strange. One minute you're jungle fever. The next you're Artic winter.

Ellen Hopkins

#95. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Andre Dubus

#96. How could she explain to Felicity that her anxiety was like a strange, mercurial little pet she was forced to look after? Sometimes it was quiet and pliable; other days it was crazy, running around in circles, yapping in her ear.

Liane Moriarty

#97. I'm strange, but how much deeper go as much stranger I go. To make horror make me laugher, because people suffer in this world!

Deyth Banger

#98. Jordan followed, buttoning his jeans and muttering about how there was nothing strange about having a pattern of dancing penguins on your underwear.

Cassandra Clare

#99. Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.

Nicki Minaj

#100. Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Robin Hobb