Quotes About Friendly Strangers

#1. I feel like I have a lot of novel ideas, but they often come up while I'm already in the process of working on a book. You have to watch out with the slutty new idea.

Matt De La Pena

#2. The idea that someone, man or woman, should receive any kind of extra attention or affection or popularity or respect or adulation, simply because of a quirk of genetics and some arbitrary male-media-defined subjective notion of 'beauty' seems to me inherently wrong and unacceptable.

David Nicholls

#3. Do you realize that I have had five albums in the Top 30. Elvis and The Beatles have never done that. I had five singles in the Top 5, I mean, no one's ever done that.

Chubby Checker

#4. It's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that it's nothing personal.
Well, fuck them.
Make it personal.

Richard K. Morgan

#5. Wealth and reputation were the things our people had always killed for.

Madeline Miller

#6. I will never be worthy of her. But I spend every day trying my damnedest.

Sylvain Reynard

#7. It was painful looking at the man you wanted more than a cake pop and knowing you'd never have him, because to do so would mean becoming one of many other notches on his bedpost.

L.A. Fiore

#8. You can't stop a teacher when they want to do something. They just do it.

J.D. Salinger

#9. This nation is so friendly that the leading cause of injury is getting passionately embraced by strangers.

Dave Barry

#10. In an extended family, anybody can bug out of his own house for months, and still be among relatives. Nobody has to go on a hopeless quest for friendly strangers, which is what most Americans have to do.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.

Jean De La Bruyere

#12. We're friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don't know where it comes from) that we're born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us.

Helen Oyeyemi

#13. No man can tell until he is moved by the Divine Spirit what he may do, or how he may change the current of a lifetime of fixed habits of thought and speech and action.

Charles M. Sheldon

#14. A werewolf tossed me against a giant packing crate while I was trying to rescue a frightened young girl who'd been kidnapped by an evil witch and a drug lord.

Patricia Briggs

#15. The Labor Party is a body that does not seek political life, and does not fight for its life.

Ami Ayalon

#16. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#17. Momentary life has its rights, and is not bound to sacrifice itself constantly to the future.

Victor Hugo

#18. Perception of friendliness differs from one culture to another. While it is true that people of one country may tend to be more spontaneously friendly to strangers than people of another country, I have found friendly people everywhere in the world, especially if I tried to make the first gesture.

Clifford A.L. Becker

#19. A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Mary Karr