Top 100 Quotes About Strange Things
#1. 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
#2. Wednesday grinned. His smiles were strange things, Shadow decided. They contained no shred of humor, no happiness, no mirth. Wednesday looked like he had learned to smile from a manual.
Neil Gaiman
#3. I did a lot of strange things. But I am a bad Catholic that's for sure. Although I think it's difficult to believe in evil.
Lars Von Trier
#4. There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things ... mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.
Truman Capote
#5. On the whole she found erring children easier to deal with than their frantic parents, confirming her conclusion that marriage did strange things to the adult mind.
Miranda Neville
#6. Back in the gurdwara, the ceiling doing strange things above my head, Jungli fed me with pieces of orange.
Our outspoken attachment deepened. I was moved by his tenderness, his simplicity and his beautiful eyes. Beauty is a great robber of my common sense.
Sarah Lloyd
#7. The earliest impetuses for writing, for me, were simply the strange things I happened to notice in my everyday life, stuff I read about in the grocery store tabloids my mom bought, situations that struck me as compelling, anecdotes I'd heard, images, words, metaphors.
Dan Chaon
#8. ... Something isn't right with you and this property. Strange things happen around it. I don't know what is going on, but I will find out. You could make it easier on yourself by coming clean."
"Sure. This is a magic bed-and-breakfast and the two guys in my kitchen are aliens from outerspace.
Ilona Andrews
#9. Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.
William Beebe
#10. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.
Moira Katson
#11. We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
Jack Nance
#12. You're Regina Luporum," Ned, Master of London, had said. "Of course strange things are happening to you.
Carrie Vaughn
#13. It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.
Brandon Sanderson
#14. Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows.
Scott Lynch
#15. We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.
Clive Barker
#16. It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.
Madeleine Roux
#18. People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with sheep who don't say anything at all.
Paulo Coelho
#19. No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#20. His touch does strange things to me. It makes me feel things. Things I'm not supposed to feel. Things I can't allow myself to feel. It's like his fingers are strumming my heartstrings, pulling, plucking, twisting, and I'm helpless. Completely and utterly helpless.
Beth Michele
#21. Thus do strange things cease to be strange upon repetition.
Michael Crichton
#22. Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.
Bram Stoker
#23. If a man goes up into Parnassus after sunset, why should he not see strange things? The gods still walk there, and a man who would not go carefully in the country of the gods is a fool.
Mary Stewart
#24. There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
Arthur Machen
#25. Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
Ernest Hemingway,
#26. People do strange things when they've been inspired. Moreover they're moved to achieve something they never would've done before.
Sarah Michelle Lynch
#27. The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.
Albert Einstein
#28. If grownups want to dress in Tudor costume, douse babies in water, intone over the dead and do strange things with wine and wafers, it is a free country. But for a Christian sect to claim ownership of the legal definition of a human relationship is way out of order.
Simon Jenkins
#29. Strange things happen when we stand face to face with our enemy, don't they, Phaedra of Alonso?
Melina Marchetta
#30. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He is the soul of antique Aegyptus, and bearer of tales from forgotten cities in Meroe and Ophir. He
H.P. Lovecraft
#31. Strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.
Jane Austen
#32. Very strange things comes to our knowledge in families, miss; bless your heart, what you would think to be phenomenons, quite ... Aye, and even in gen-teel families, in high families, in great families ... and you have no idea ... what games goes on!
Charles Dickens
#33. Strange things are always abounding. Watch and discern. There is always a lesson to be learned.
Vanessa Richardson
#34. Strange things are said to have happened in this world - some are said to be happening still - but half of them, if I'm any judge, are lies.
James P. Blaylock
#35. I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out.
Donna Lynn Hope
#36. When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#37. The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.
Lori Lansens
#38. I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves
Rita Dove
#39. A credulous mind ... finds most delight in believing
strange things, and the stranger they are the easier they pass
with him; but never regards those that are plain and
feasible, for every man can believe such.
Samuel Butler
#40. Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.
Cate Blanchett
#41. There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.
Steven Spielberg
#42. Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.
John Jay
#43. About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.
Lucio Russo
#44. People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and ... well, sometimes they can't talk about them.
Alan Moore
#46. She shook her head in puzzlement.
'You're very strange,' she said.
'No, I'm very ordinary,' said Arthur,'but some very strange things have happened to me. You could say I'm more differed from than differing.
Douglas Adams
#47. Marriage did strange things to people. It could have been World War III in that kitchen, but if there was coffee, two mugs would always be served.
Ania Ahlborn
#48. Relationships in life expose one to many new and strange situations which teach you new and strange things - to trust whom you mistrust and mistrust whom you trust, to love whom you hate and to hate whom you love.
Amit Abraham
#49. Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.
Paul Auster
#50. You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found ...
Rebecca Solnit
#51. Maybe [aliens] have been in our lives a lot longer than we want to admit. People have always seen strange things - elves and fairies - and now we don't. Now we see them, right?
Thomm Quackenbush
#52. Memories are strange things. Withough being something I can hold in my hand, they wield a beguiling power over me. Like a mirage in the noontime heat of summer, they dance before my inner eyes and beckon me to find water where there is not water.
Joy Sikorski
#53. I tend to prioritize emotional realism above the known laws of time and space, and when you do that, it's inevitable that strange things happen. Which can be quite enjoyable, I think.
Helen Oyeyemi
#54. I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
Lars Von Trier
#55. It came from the woods. Most strange things do.
Emily Carroll
#56. Perhaps I am the only person who, asked whether she were a witch or not, could truthfully say, "I do not know. I do know some very strange things have happened to me, or through me."
Lady Alice Rowhedge
Norah Lofts
#57. You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down your chin. Likewise, the language of Dickens makes your mouth do strange things, and when you're not used to his words your jaw will creak.
Lloyd Jones
#58. Prison does strange things to men. Although its purpose is to break the free spirit of a man, in many cases it just adds fuel to the fire that has never been and will never be extinguished.
William Powell
#59. It dawns on me that most people would probably be happy with my weekend. I just won five million dollars. But one of the strange things about being rich as shit is five million's just not that exciting.
Ella James
#60. What happens when you get to the end of the world? Sometimes you find a party. This party has been going on for a long time. There is music, lights, people drinking and dancing. Strange things happen at these parties. It is the end of the world, after all.
Kelly Link
#61. Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.
Steven Erikson
#62. Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened one after another, to the point where, if I try to think about them in order, I lose track.
Haruki Murakami
#63. Golf does strange things to other people, too. It makes liars out of honest men, cheats out of altruists, cowards out of brave men and fools out of everybody.
Milt Gross
#64. I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.
Gemma Arterton
#65. What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
J.K. Rowling
#66. If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#67. The Wood did strange things to humans, especially humans who had a distant touch of the fae within. It turned them from ordinary people into mad hermits, cannibals who ate children thinking they were made of gingerbread, and people who swore they had been asleep for one hundred years.
Kate Danley
#68. Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]
William Shakespeare
#69. One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.
J.P. Delaney
#70. Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.
Bram Stoker
#71. We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.
Bram Stoker
#72. One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.
Napoleon Hill
#73. Christmas is a fun theme for a courtroom tale, because like that "Miracle on 34th Street", strange things have been known to happen when Christmas and the law come face to face.
Landis Wade
#74. Love did strange things to people, and lust produced even weirder behavior.
Rainbow Rowell
#75. Grand Slams are funny things. You have to try to find a way to get through the first week and put yourself in a position in the second week. A lot of strange things happen.
Lleyton Hewitt
#76. A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.
Steve Wozniak
#77. I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.
Noomi Rapace
#78. Meteorologist see perfect in strange things, and the meshing of three completely independent weather systems to form a hundred-year event is one of them. My God, thought Case, this is the perfect storm.
Sebastian Junger
#79. One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, 'Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!' This should be one's practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.
Ramana Maharshi
#80. Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver.
Virginia Woolf
#81. I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last
Nicholas Sparks
#82. Caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.
Barbara Hurd
#83. The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. I'm petrified. Because being this close to you is doing things to me. Strange things and irrational things and things that flutter against my chest and braid my bones to ether. I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head.
Tahereh Mafi
#85. The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.
H.P. Lovecraft
#86. One day my sister Virginia woke up feeling wolfish. She made wolf SOUNDS and did strange things ...
Kyo Maclear
#87. But my animals are real animals, and they behave as animals usually do. It's really the humans who do strange things. Animals are predictable. Humans, never.
Ruskin Bond
#88. Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things ... like photo shoots!
Neneh Cherry
#89. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#90. She told herself that life is short. This didn't mean that nothing mattered, only that when strange things happened there was often no turning back.
Luke Davies
#91. To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.
Tobey Maguire
#92. I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Bram Stoker
#93. Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you'll regret and still, you do them.
C.K. Kelly Martin
#95. nature hates a vacuum and strange things are drawn into empty places; sometimes oddities survive where nothing else can.
Craig Johnson
#96. You do not overcome the old teaching through doing less, but through doing more. Every step closer to my soul excites the scornful laughter of my devils, those cowardly ear-whisperers and poison-mixers. It was easy for them to laugh, since I had to do strange things.
C. G. Jung
#97. Strange things are happening to us.'To our children.'They say
he is looking for the spirit of Independence.'They say he is looking for himself.'For his own
spirit.'Which he lost when the white man came.
Ben Okri
#98. The function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make wonders facts as to make facts wonders.
G.K. Chesterton
#99. There's a bit of a local legend about a jet heart that has turned up over the years," Flynn said. "Any time it turns up, strange things happen.
Teresa Flavin
#100. Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
Jack Nance
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