Perfect Strangers Quotes

#1. I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'

Lev Grossman

#2. Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. I am so consumed by wonder at their bravery. These people have left their families and lives behind for a few weeks to go into silent retreat amidst a crowd of perfect strangers in India. Not everybody does this in their lifetime.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. Just looking at him made Andrew feel tense and irritated. It was wonder perfect strangers didn't go up to the guy and punch him in the face.

Jane Davitt

#6. It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Confronting discomfort is giving me strength, in a world where perfect strangers can render me powerless.

Veronica Larsen

#8. The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#9. Oftentimes lies are found in those closest to you and truth in perfect strangers

Katrina Sisowath

#10. My grandma loved to be on stage entertaining people. She loves to make people smile and laugh. She loves to brighten other people's day. She often calls perfect strangers her angel, as a way of witnessing, but also to encourage and build their self-esteem.

Lisa Bedrick

#11. I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Louise Jameson

#12. I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.

Lea Salonga

#13. Beggars approached the task of trying to persuade perfect strangers to bear the burden of their maintenance with that optimistic vim which makes all the difference. It was one of those happy mornings.

P.G. Wodehouse

#14. I don't take gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody is perfect.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

#15. My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started ... I was fine.

John Bonham

#16. If you measure your life by what you own, the cavern of your heart will never be filled.

James D. Maxon

#17. You don't think I'd throw you in there while you're conscious do you? I'd never do something so evil. He drew a heart on my palm with his finger.

Karen Amanda Hooper

#18. On set, there's a lot of pressure. But it sort of heightens the moments.

Spike Jonze

#19. Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses.

Sigmund Freud

#20. Milk, blood, tears, urine, semen.

Henri Cole

#21. I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.

Marat Safin

#22. Whether success will crown the effort, or whether God wills it otherwise, it is not for man to discuss; it is enough that the work is there, and it is our duty to do it.

G.A. Henty

#23. Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness.

Rajneesh

#24. Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool.

Sara King

#25. Jeff Kinney is tall and has a great smile, but don't be fooled, he's as slick as they come. A real player. And how he came up with a book that appeals to kids ages 8-13 baffles me. He's an unbelievably kind man with a great family.

Rachael Harris

#26. There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.

Ville Valo

#27. Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.

Isaac Stern