Quotes About Strange People

#1. Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Beetlejuice

#2. 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

#3. The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

John Steinbeck

#4. I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

Julie Walters

#5. 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

#6. Strange isn't it, people spend their time making nice things and other people come along and brake them.

David Whitaker

#7. 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

#8. But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.

Virginia Woolf

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

Prefuse 73

#10. Fatigue makes people say strange things.

Manel Loureiro

#11. There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.

Shaikh Ashraf

#12. I know it sounds strange to say, but the very technologies that have made traveling easier for most people - GPS, automated ticket machines, online schedules and ticketing, boarding passes you can print out at home - have actually made things harder for me.

Philip Schultz

#13. 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

#14. People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Stephen King

#15. Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange.

Daniel Radcliffe

#16. The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'

Eric Sevareid

#17. These were his people
a strange thought. Maybe not his very own people, as in father, mother, brother, sister, but people just like him. He was lost but not so lost after all.

Ted Dekker

#18. They're a very strange lot actors, very strange people.

Ben Kingsley

#19. People do strange things sometimes, when they feel hopeless.

Danielle Steel

#20. I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.

Susanna Clarke

#21. For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Pauline Kael

#22. Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.

Victoria Legrand

#23. I'd always leaned toward the shy side but was never unsocial until I started seeing visions of people from the past. It's a really strange existence, not knowing if the person you're talking to is physically there or not. Not knowing if you're one hallucination away from a psychotic break.

Myra McEntire

#24. One last word of advice, though, Mr. Okada, though you may not want to hear this. There are things in this world it is better not to know about. Of course, those are the very things that people most want to know about. It's strange.

Haruki Murakami

#25. Sefi slinks around us, examining the alien Gold and the strange gear she carries. I like the way people talk when Sefi circles. Seems a little more honest.

Pierce Brown

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

Sienna Miller

#27. It's strange to think about your teachers as being people.

Stephen Chbosky

#28. Never strive to be part of the norm. If people think you strange ... CELEBRATE. Normal people try way to hard to please others and never end up pleasing themselves. Be ABnormal. It's more fun.

Shelley K. Wall

#29. 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

#30. I was always holding onto people, and they were always leaving.

Lili St. Crow

#31. If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.

Jessye Norman

#32. We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Gilbert Hernandez

#33. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.

Dana Gould

#34. I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange - so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that - someone who's kind of normal just doesn't feel as true.

Missi Pyle

#35. I think people perceive my creatures as absurd because they look different, but at the same time, they are a little bit familiar. I want people to feel a kind of empathy with them. When you think about it, all nature is kind of strange looking.. in fact, I'm a strange a looking creature.

Patricia Piccinini

#36. The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

Phil Ochs

#37. It comes to him that maybe love is always this way, a long-shot gamble: a bet against the odds that some intangible connection--even one so strange as this--will outweigh all the details and triviality of the world that drive people apart.

Matthew Flaming

#38. The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

Helen Mirren

#39. Like my grandmother he kept secrets the way other people kept fish. They were a hobby, a fascination, his underwater collection of the rare and the strange. Occasionally something would float up to the surface, unexpected, unexplained

Jeanette Winterson

#40. People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

Bob Dylan

#41. 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

#42. Noah the first-born, tall and strange, walking always with a wondering look on his face, calm and puzzled. He had never been angry in his life. He looked in wonder at angry people, wonder and uneasiness, as normal people look at the insane.

John Steinbeck

#43. You are a strange people. So loving, yet so lonely, inside. I would lie awake at night and gaze up at the dark blue sky, and ache to feel your loneliness - even though I was always there. I was always there, Mae.

Charlotte Stein

#44. I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

Malachy McCourt

#45. It's strange to think that I can go places and people want to hear my music. I guess that's all I ever wanted.

George Ezra

#46. There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

John Knowles

#47. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

Daphne Kalotay

#48. It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

Warren Cuccurullo

#49. It's a strange thing, you have said it thousands of times I am sure ... you will never know what you can do until you try. However the sad truth is, that most people never try anything until they know they can do it.

Bob Proctor

#50. The mind of the people is like mud, from which arises strange and beautiful things.

Walter J. Turner

#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. I had a very strange career. I mean I went from playing to 150,000 people in 1983/84. Three or four years later I was playing to four people, you know, in Melbourne. I thought - bit strange, you know bit odd, bit erratic.

Colin Hay

#53. I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

Brie Larson

#54. I've probably been boring a lot of people for a long time. Strange to find comfort in the idea. There have always been things I felt I must tell them, even if no one listened or understood.

Marilynne Robinson

#55. It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

Toni Collette

#56. 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

#57. I've seen comedians make people laugh by being either really dark and sad and touching, or really strange and bizarre and creepy. You can take the format and do whatever you want with it, and that seemed interesting to me.

Amy Seimetz

#58. Lila never knew people could be so mean. She was mean, too, because the sadness in that house was like a dream that made everything strange and wrong.

Marilynne Robinson

#59. It's a very strange and quite terrifying experience to watch yourself on TV. I never like to do it with other people.

Simon Bird

#60. 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

#61. It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.

Kenneth Branagh

#62. A good life lesson is not to take strange meat from strange people. "You're

Chuck Wendig

#63. It was a strange experience to be looking out the window of an eighteenth-century Chinese house at a seventeenth-century colonial graveyard full of people in twenty-first-century Halloween costumes. Salem, guys.

J.W. Ocker

#64. And all of these writers offer me a greater understanding of what it is to be alive, and that is such an incredible thing art can do for other people. It made me want to try and get close to this strange, mysterious thing that people can do with words.

PJ Harvey

#65. There have been a few little films I'd done like that that the studio just decided not to do much with, films like Anywhere but Here [1999] or Jeff, Who Lives at Home [2012]. Thank God people find them later and love them. I'm always really drawn to people who have seen these strange little films.

Susan Sarandon

#66. 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

#67. I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.

Arthur Bradford

#68. It's strange that so many people think it's glamorous and fun to be on a set, I guess it shows they do a good job of hiding reality!

Michael Jeter

#69. You get a strange feeling when you leave a place, like you'll not only miss the people you love, but you miss the person you are at this time and place because you'll never be the same again

Azar Nafisi

#70. Some people talk about screen kisses being strange or uncomfortable. But I think that I got along with Anna well enough that it just happened; it was a fun day of shooting.

Shawn Ashmore

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

Auliq Ice

#72. Do you not enslave people now?" asks the man. "Chains are forged of many strange metals. Poverty is one. Fear, another. Ritual and custom are yet more. All actions are forms of slavery, methods of forcing people to do what they deeply wish not to do.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#73. You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Dar Williams

#74. What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Hu Shih

#75. Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.

Richard Pryor

#76. Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Eckhart Tolle

#77. 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

#78. We have a tradition in Tibet. Sacred craziness. Men and women who act in a strange way. People think they are fools, but their wisdom, in fact, is more than those we call normal.

Roland Merullo

#79. 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

#80. People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Johnny Depp

#81. It is not good to be so much away from one's own people. It is the sort of thing known to make one strange.

Tony D'Souza

#82. It's strange because a lot of people are like, 'You can't change human nature-people are inherently negative.' I don't think that's true. If you expect the best from people, they'll step up.

Zooey Deschanel

#83. 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

#84. Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

Samuel Pepys

#85. I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But going back was strange, and perhaps stranger for the other students.

Henry Thomas

#86. Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Diana Wynne Jones

#87. I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too.

Ben Folds

#88. Earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which, strange to relate, have proved more important

Charles Dickens

#89. orgy of sampling Europe's charms, she never went back, and that was strange. In his experience people always

Colleen McCullough

#90. As I grew up I realized, though imperfectly, that I was different from other people, and that the way of life in my home was different from that in the homes of others ... This stimulated me to introspection and strange mental questionings.

John George Haigh

#91. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.

Sue Monk Kidd

#92. This is home, it's the only place I want to be, but at the same time everything familiar feels strange. It's the same as it ever was except without the people who most belong here.

Jael McHenry

#93. What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

Hafez

#94. When you write books for a living, you come to realize that while not all people who write to authors are strange, all people who are strange write to authors.

Bill Bryson

#95. I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#96. There aren't many people who say that Europe is a territory, or Asia is a territory - it'd be suicide. And there are even more people in America than in Europe. I think it's strange, really. I basically see it as loads of different places.

Sean Booth

#97. People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Neil Gaiman

#98. What a strange creature is a laughing fool,
As if a man were created to no use
But only to show his teeth.

John Webster

#99. And just like the moment in the hall, when grief and recognition slammed together, Ava knew. However it had happened, whatever strange twist of fate had caught her ... these were her people. And however he tried to deny it, Malachi was hers, too.

Elizabeth Hunter

#100. I went to one of these signing conventions. It was one of the most interesting experiences I've had. It was so strange that people would pay for autographs. You keep thinking you should do a little dance for them as well or something.

Robert Pattinson