Queerer Than Sayings

#1. As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The

Bill Bryson

#2. It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

John B. S. Haldane

#3. My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

John B. S. Haldane

#4. I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.

Sylvia Plath

#5. The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose

Bill Bryson

#6. It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

Thomas Mann

#7. With God nothing is ever lost, so every experience, even the most painful ones, can mold our souls for eternity. People who do not understand this get lost in their suffering because they see it as meaningless. -- page 41

Evan Howard

#8. I guess I felt straight when I was allowed to get married. Now I feel queerer because I'm not. It's the only thing that's changed. I wouldn't measure it in icon status or how much my demographic has changed, but in the rage I feel, and being not equal.

Sia Furler

#9. Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it.

Joan Jett

#10. Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

Mark Twain

#11. There is no comment on pictures but pictures, on music but music, on poems but poetry. If you do, you do. If you don't, you don't. And that's all there is to that.

William Carlos Williams

#12. Jean was definitely the girl who mattered, despite her queer ideas and queerer friends. He had no intention of totally abandoning Naomi or Joy or Elsa or - what was her name? - Denise; but the time had come for something more permanent.

Arthur C. Clarke

#13. I didn't do anything. I didn't move a thing, I didn't touch a thing, I didn't change a thing. Believers do everything.

Christopher Moore

#14. Oh, how we could blossom if we didn't have to fight to the death to merely exist!

Bryant McGill

#15. He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.
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Frances O'Roark Dowell

#16. To plunge into passionate dispute over the trivialities of so-called honor is a queerer but not uncommon gambit of men who have just come from putting their lives at stake in serious combat,

Barbara W. Tuchman

#17. We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#18. Septon Barth's claim that the Valyrians came to Westeros because their priests prophesied that the Doom of Man would come out of the land beyond the narrow sea can safely be dismissed as nonsense, as can many of Barth's queerer beliefs and suppositions.

George R R Martin

#19. I am what you made me, Father.

Jamie Ford

#20. We all stripped to survive, it's only the what we were surviving part that was different.

Kim Holden

#21. The creation of a work of art must of necessity, as a result of entering into the specific dimensions of pictorial art, be accompanied by distortion of the natural form. For, therein is nature reborn.

Paul Klee

#22. There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

David Brooks

#23. I wasn't - " I began.
I didn't - " He began.
How charming," V'lane cut us off. His voice arrived before he did. "The very portrait of human domestic bliss. She's on the floor, you're towering over her. Did he strike you, MacKayla? Say the word and I'll kill him.

Karen Marie Moning