Quotes About Strange Places

#1. I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Nina Simone

#2. Sometimes wisdom came from strange places, even from giant teenaged goldfish.

Rick Riordan

#3. I would have bought you some more, but since they didn't have tags in them, I didn't know what size to buy. (Sunshine)
Great. I live to be stuck in strange places, naked. (Talon)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Justin Cronin

#5. In our course through life we shall meet the people who are coming to meet us, from many strange places and by many strange roads,' was the composed reply; 'and what it is set to us to do to them, and what it is set to them to do to us, will all be done.

Charles Dickens

#6. Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Evan Osnos

#7. People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

John Darnielle

#8. But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

Madonna Ciccone

#9. People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and ... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.

Alan Moore

#10. What could be more entrancing than a carefree nomadic existence camping, moving, exploring strange places and the ruins of forgotten empires, sleeping under canvas or the open sky, and giving no thought to the conventions and restriction of the modern world?

M.M. Kaye

#11. Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

Renny Harlin

#12. I realised that reading was the key that opened the door to secret lands, strange places and the worlds behind other people's eyes.

Ramona Koval

#13. 'This' pain I can see it but I can't feel it It haunts me When I cut myself I can see where the pain is coming from and watch it heal And I can easily care for it 'This' pain doesn't have a specific place It moves around and creeps into strange places.

Melanie

#14. The American School of Paris is one of those strange places in foreign cities where expatriates huddle together in a defensive circle and try to pretend they're still back at home.
I saw it as a place for lost souls.

Amy Plum

#15. My lord, when you are looking for ... what I am looking for, you have to look in strange places. Men can never look at the sun, except downwards, at his reflection in things of earth. If he is reflected in a dirty puddle, he is still the sun. There is nowhere I will not look, to find him.

Mary Stewart

#16. traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

Ibn Battuta

#17. When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

Seth MacFarlane

#18. Things turn up in strange places all the time. For example library books, which possess a disconcerting ability to move from place to place, seemingly of their own volition.

Lauren Willig

#19. I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

Laurel Nakadate

#20. Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.

Alan Alda

#21. I don't like to go to strange places.

Nina Simone

#22. When you're lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.

Melissa Broder

#23. Miles away from everthing and everyone I've ever known or loved. I feel as if I've entered a new era of my life. What strange places our lives carry us to ...

Justin Cronin

#24. I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. I've hired many people at very strange places.

Tony Fernandes

#25. It isn't about kneeling in strange places at strange times; it's about the willingness to obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. It's about a willingness to kneel anyplace, anytime.

Mark Batterson

#26. We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places and dark places in our hearts.

Eilis Flynn

#27. She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

Laura Riding

#28. Like special fungus, your love will grow in strange places

Lauren Bjorkman

#29. So in the streets of Calcutta I sometimes imagine myself a foreigner, and only then do I discover how much is to be seen, which is lost so long as its full value in attention is not paid. It is the hunger to really see which drives people to travel to strange places.

Rabindranath Tagore

#30. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.

Douglas Adams

#31. Why would we ever be surprised when truth turns up in strange places?

Rob Bell

#32. Isn't it strange how life is always taking you to places and to people you're supposed to see and meet?" "You

Mark T. Sullivan

#33. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.

Adam Gopnik

#34. I don't go to mythical places with strange men.

Douglas Adams

#35. School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

Frederick Lenz

#36. Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

Rachel Caine

#37. The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

Johann Joachim Becher

#38. My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

Tony Judt

#39. ...I have big dreams, too. I used to think that made me different and strange. But when I came here and found all these books, I realized there are places in the world where I belong, even if I haven't found them yet.

Random House Disney

#40. And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places.

Joe Sacco

#41. I always tried to imagine what it would be like to open your door to find something you had given up on. maybe it had seen places you never had, been rerouted and passed through so many strange hands, but still somehow found its way back to you, all before the day even began.

Sarah Dessen

#42. I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.

Jose Marti

#43. Time can be strange sometimes. It can leave imprints in particular places, leaving ghosts of memories trapped.

Holly Bourne

#44. Certain places in the natural world still possess a strange, perhaps spiritual charge, which we can sense almost immediately.

Jane Hope

#45. Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.

David Hume

#46. I was quite unbalanced with that instinct for the strange and the unknown which had made me a wanderer upon earth and a haunter of far, ancient, and forbidden places.

H.P. Lovecraft

#47. It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#48. My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

Morgan Freeman

#49. I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

John Irving

#50. All at once it strikes me ... that all you know of a life is the places where it touches your own ... It's strange and diminishing, like looking through a telescope at the stars.

Leah Stewart

#51. There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

Louis Sachar

#52. Strange trails are good places to bloom.

Paul J. Pastor

#53. Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

David Brin

#54. It is so contradictory that life can be the worst it's ever been and the best it's ever been all at once. It's strange how love can blossom even in the darkest places.

Amanda Hocking

#55. The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.

Moby

#56. The movie industry places such importance on first-week numbers-which means what to people, I don't know. It's very strange. They hope to sell tons of records the first week, and then what?

Brendan Benson

#57. Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

Daniel H. Wilson

#58. Naomi isn't just under my skin anymore; she's in my blood and my brain and all sorts of strange friggin' places that ache for her.

C.M. Stunich

#59. I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

Angelina Jolie

#60. nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.

Craig Johnson

#61. Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

H.P. Lovecraft

#62. Tell me some true things about fighting.'Tell me you love me.'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.

Ernest Hemingway,

#63. 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

#64. A good book laces invisible fingers into the shape of a winter armchair or a hammock in the sun. I'm not talking about comfort, necessarily, but support. A good writer might take you to strange and difficult places, but you're in the hands of someone you trust.

Brenda Walker

#65. The romantics were prompted to seek exotic subjects and to travel to far off places. They failed to realize that, though the transcendental must involve the strange and unfamiliar, not everything strange or unfamiliar is transcendental.

Mark Rothko

#66. It takes time to get used to a strange house, especially one as old as this. Even I sometimes find myself looking over my shoulder when I'm alone in it. It's the way of such places, isn't it? They wear their history heavily.

John Connolly

#67. Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Flann O'Brien

#68. 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

#69. She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

Kate Chopin

#70. Part of the far shore disappeared into a shimmer that looked like water. There was no certainty in seeing, no proof that what you saw was there or was not there. And the people of the Gulf expected all places were that way, and it was not strange to them.

John Steinbeck

#71. Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Charles Bukowski

#72. I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.

Mads Mikkelsen

#73. What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having been born in the glitter, born on the other side of the mirror that everyone fantasizes about.

Lou Doillon

#74. I'm in kind of a strange position - I have a strong Australian career and a strong British career. Then there's the American career. For every movie I do here, I do two somewhere else. I bounce back and forth between the three places.

Caroline Goodall

#75. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#76. The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

Henry David Thoreau

#77. Strange the faithless fuss made about taking a walk in the safest and pleasantest of all places, a wilderness.

John Muir

#78. The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

D.H. Lawrence

#79. I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

David Lynch

#80. The Internet is a really strange place to be.

Justin Timberlake

#81. Going onstage without my primary instrument is like being a guitarist and going up onstage with no guitar waiting for you. What do you do? That's why performance is painful for me, because I feel like I am always in a strange place with a bit of a handicap.

Son Lux

#82. On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps ...

Kelly Link

#83. Imagination is the supreme endowment of the poet and romanticist. It is a kind of second sight, which conveys the owner of it to places he has never seen, and surrounds him with strange circumstances of which he is merely the spiritual eyewitness.

Marie Corelli

#84. Time is a strange storyteller. It writes, erases and rewrites endlessly. Things change, places and people become unrecognizable, but stories are repeated endlessly

Vandana Shanker

#85. The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

Katy Perry

#86. Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser

Osho

#87. It was strange that one couldn't know in advance which places one was later going to wish to remember.

Caleb Crain