Now We Are Strangers Quotes

#1. There's nothing more human than selling food to strangers, you know?

Pete Hamill

#2. Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

David Levithan

#3. But, he feigned not to notice the two strangers, and fell into discourse with the triumvirate of customers who were drinking at the counter.

Charles Dickens

#4. Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

Seth Godin

#5. No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

Sarah Vowell

#6. Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child.

Max Muller

#7. They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

Nicholas Sparks

#8. Strangers are endearing because you don't know them yet.

Dejan Stojanovic

#9. I love museums, but I always thought there was something funny about a group of strangers silently staring at works of inanimate objects together. Each person is having a very personal and maybe even emotional experience, but it's in the confines of an extremely quiet and sterile room.

Hiro Murai

#10. The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#11. It is the writer's job to craft a story so compelling that strangers will pay to hear it.

Seeley James

#12. Ellie swallowed hard, heat rising in her face. Within hours, she and Collin had gone from kissing in the rain to nearly strangers.
What changed?

Tracy March

#13. Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

Scotty McCreery

#14. You will come across people who always affirm by everything you say, but at the hour of need, they simply disappear! Stay away from such people or simply don't fall for their promises.

K. Hari Kumar

#15. At length the grandeur of the mountains becomes monotonous; with familiarity, the landscape ceases to provoke awe and wonder and the traveller sees the alps with the indifferent eye of those who always live there.

Angela Carter

#16. But it's too late, I'm sorry. Now I have no idea how things begin, nor how to know that they are safe, nor how to show strangers we are safe too.

Sara Baume

#17. I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

Tan Redding

#18. People need to spread love towards strangers. We all bleed the same blood and we are all part of a global community now.

Aloe Blacc

#19. That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself.

Paul Sarbanes

#20. We are exiles in Time's abyss, strangers now in the Promised Land.

D.B. Nielsen

#21. How will the performer-audience interaction change,
now that we are so used to participating in the lives of strangers?

Natasha Tsakos

#22. It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.

Janet Echelman

#23. I convinced my parents to let me see an agent, but because I had been taught never to speak to strangers, I was so quiet during the interview, they said to bring me back when I was older.

Jason Fuchs

#24. Instead of showing strangers kindness and giving them the benefit of the doubt, we increasingly show them only fear, and that is bad for us and them.

Julian Baggini

#25. Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.

Luke Harding

#26. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.

Alexandra Petri

#27. Who tries? You try, your dad tries, average people try. And for their attempts at goodness, average people are mugged by strangers, molested by predatory uncles, massacred by their own governments.

Nicole Peeler

#28. She also knew that the sadness she felt while pregnant, for strangers, for the entire world, did not feel like hormones so much as a kind of elevated consciousness, a heightened sensitivity to truth.

Laura Moriarty

#29. If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Shannon L. Alder

#30. Smile is the shortest and fastest communication between strangers.

Saru Singhal

#31. Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Jonah Lehrer

#32. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind.

Jonathan Carroll

#33. When we have no families, we must find support elsewhere. Sometimes in strangers. We're all alone on this earth. We must take any hand that's offered us. I offer you mine...I'll be your friend, if you wish. The faithful kind.

- Elva

Paul Fleischman

#34. Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

Kurt Vonnegut

#35. Sex with a stranger makes you feel decadent, a risk taker, young again. Sex with a stranger is life on the edge. Everything else is life wrapped in cotton wool.

Chloe Thurlow

#36. Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

Sara Paretsky

#37. Aside from their companionship, I'd brought Sage and Sky as ambassadors, hoping they would attract attention and open the door to conversations with strangers. In a moment, they fulfilled their diplomatic function.

Philip Caputo

#38. You are pregnant, with child, in the family way. People, some of whom you hardly know, will begin to comment on your belly size. They might even give it a rub, like you have strapped an animal of some kind in your front side and given total strangers permission to pet you at their leisure.

Amy E. Spiegel

#39. No connection can ever be broken if love holds tight at both ends.

Shannon L. Alder

#40. What can be quieter than standing alone in a crowd of strangers?

Keri Arthur

#41. Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

Richard Bayan

#42. I always wanted to make strangers and friends and family laugh. I was over ten years younger than my brothers. It was hard to get attention without some kind of gimmick, like athletic stardom or being funny.

Gary Gulman