Top 100 Quotes About Strange
#1. Acting so obviously submissive to Max around strangers, I felt a lot of humiliation. The looks from people, the comments. But I also felt this strange sense of pride. I am his possession, his property. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud of how happy I make him.
Willow Madison
#2. Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
Charles Nodier
#3. Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history,
is second childishness and mere oblivion.
I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
William Shakespeare
#4. There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.
Oscar Wilde
#5. I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.
Aleksa Palladino
#6. They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.
Paulo Coelho
#7. Throughout one's life, the mind remembers in such strange ways. Those experiences worth remembering will be recalled with ease; crystal clear insights into the past. Together with a smile they will be woven into yarns and shared with others.
Calum J. Lambie
#8. I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.
Sy Montgomery
#9. You always question what's new. It's human nature. While everything else, you know, no matter how strange, feels normal because you're trained to see it that way. You're brainwashed.
J.M. Darhower
#10. An army is a strange masterpiece of combination where force results from an enormous sum of impotence. Thus is war, made by humanity against humanity, despite humanity, explained.
Victor Hugo
#12. Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society.
Konnie Huq
#13. We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
Allan Bloom
#14. After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.
Diet Eman
#15. As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head
Mary Church Terrell
#16. In past summers when I had been home, I had often tasted a strange sadness as I sat quietly in the midst of the seething cicada song. This sorrow seemed to pierce deep into my heart along with the piercing insect cry. Always at such times I would sit alone and still, gazing into myself.
Soseki Natsume
#17. Like a word on a page that you've printed and read a million times, that suddenly looks strange or wrong, foreign. And you feel scared for a second, like you've lost something, even if you're not sure what it is.
Sarah Dessen
#18. And it's not even strange that it feels the way it's always felt like the place we belong to. Like home.
Jacqueline Woodson
#19. Real love is strange and changeable ... but also somehow constant.
Tom Hiddleston
#21. In fifteen years, all those disturbing biological blobs would be out on Kareenburg's streets, wearing strange fashions, listening to annoying music, and disagreeing politically with their beleaguered parents.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#23. Japanese medical people are traditionally very strange and creepily poetic.
David Cronenberg
#24. Memory has strange power keeps full data of the past.
Kishore Bansal
#25. It wasn't merely fatigue. although it continued to worry me how tired i was all the time. I had a strange sense of missing something, of being in the wrong place - no matter where I was.
Josh Lanyon
#27. Never to want for anything, or work for anything, or show the tiniest grain of self-discipline in a whole life must give a man a strange outlook on the world,
Joe Abercrombie
#28. One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
Laini Taylor
#29. Justices look solemn in their formal black robes, but every so often they like to have a little fun by taking on a strange case, or overturning a presidential election, that sort of thing.
Christopher Buckley
#30. A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.
Matthew Polly
#31. He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Omar Sharif
#32. How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
John Updike
#33. Famously, the CIA is somewhere where marriages hardly ever last because it's obviously such a strange lifestyle.
Chris Terrio
#34. Sometimes you have to enact arbitrary rules, strange and perhaps irrational guidelines to force yourself out of a way of life so habitual it feels like instinct.
Leon Logothetis
#35. It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking
Adele Griffin
#36. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
Cassandra Clare
#37. The very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?
Abelardo Morell
#39. We are creating a political demolition derby, not a presidential debate. Those strange impulses in the American soul that have produced mud wrestling and The Gong Show seem to have claimed the national campaign.
Hugh Sidey
#40. It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.
Tommy Lee
#41. We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.
Jeanette Winterson
#42. I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
Ivan Lendl
#43. Perhaps the Creator of this strange place knows us better than we know ourselves. Perhaps humanity was meant to eternally ponder the purpose and importance of our own existence. If we were assured of either, we'd be intolerable creatures.
Tiffany Madison
#44. One of the most striking and fundamental things about probability theory is that it leads to an understanding of the otherwise strange fact that events which are individually capricious and unpredictable can, when treated en masse, lead to very stable average performances.
Warren Weaver
#46. This the Master said; and he turned me around Himself, and not trusting my own hands, He covered my eyes with his own. For those of you who are educated, understand the hidden meaning Of the strange words that follow!
Dante Alighieri
#47. However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose.
L. H. Cosway
#48. Because drug dealers shoot each other in London, Norfolk farmers can't have guns to defend their homes. I mean, no one wants a gun - except at 4am when they hear a strange sound in the kitchen.
Jeremy Clarkson
#49. It is strange - people chase and hoard money, and even cheat the world to become rich only to finally leave it all behind.-RVM
R.v.m.
#50. And in a flash I understood the meaning of sex. It is a craving of mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time a man and a woman slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other's identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.
Colin Wilson
#51. Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside ... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.
Chiang Kai-shek
#52. I feel a strange sensation brewing inside of me. It tickles my throat and forces my lips into a grin. Before I can stifle it, I giggle. And then I laugh.
Kristen Simmons
#53. L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.
Hope Solo
#54. Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.
Neil Young
#55. Strange, that some of us, with quick alternative vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
George Eliot
#56. I feel that the act of writing, in and of itself, is a tool towards probing that which you wouldn't without that pen in your hand. It's a strange, almost neurological phenomenon, and the words seem to generate more words - but only when you're writing. You can't do it in your head.
Paul Auster
#57. It was strange that values should make such a flashing change. ...There was not one truth but many. Was it possible for anyone to be innocent of the death of one just man?
Barbara Euphan Todd
#58. It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.
Bridget Asher
#59. The strange machinery by which a reputation precedes its source we all know is faulty. Yet how much faith we put in it!
Samuel R. Delany
#60. ... 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
#62. It's been a strange day - a day when I thought I was on top of the world, planning my life. I planned all of my courses for the rest of the semester at Smith, and talked to my advisor about honoring in History.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
#63. Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#64. You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
Carla Gugino
#65. Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
Rumi
#66. None of us are really normal. We're all just strange pieces in the world.
Krista Ritchie
#67. She experienced a queer collision of reactions these days. Karou's were foremost, and the most immediate, but Madrigal's were hers, too: her two selves, coming together with a strange kind of vibration. It's wasn't disharmony, exactly.
Laini Taylor
#68. You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
#69. 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
#70. Sometimes the lights all shining on me, other times I can barely see. Lately it occurs to me what a long strange trip it's been.
Jerry Garcia
#71. And strange-eyed constellations reign
His stars eternally.
Thomas Hardy
#72. The rock has strange powers. When you rub it, and run down the hill, the adrenaline flows. It's the most emotional experience I've ever had.
Michael Dean Perry
#73. Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#74. The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social structures is this: a relatively small circle firmly closed against neighboring, strange, or in some way antagonistic circles.
Georg Simmel
#75. Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.
Shah Rukh Khan
#76. This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.
Madeleine L'Engle
#79. Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys
#80. I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world ...
Steven Spielberg
#81. I have strange blood sugar levels. I get very odd if I don't eat. I either want to hit someone, cry, or fall asleep.
Alison Goldfrapp
#82. Everett was strange,' Sleight concedes. 'Kind of different. But him and McCandless, at least they tried to follow their dream. That's what was great about them. They tried. Not many do.' (pg. 96)
Jon Krakauer
#83. There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#84. The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ...
Jim Morrison
#85. Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
Mario Puzo
#86. This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.
Steve Aylett
#87. The pain over my heart returns, and from it I imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. Through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks. One good jolt ... and I could shatter into strange razor-sharp shards.
Suzanne Collins
#88. Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content.
Bob Dylan
#89. The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
D.H. Lawrence
#90. He said, "my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased."
Jonathan Swift
#91. How many of us feel this strange mix of busyness and lifelessness?
Kevin DeYoung
#92. For someone like me,
it is a very strange habit to write in a diary.
Not only that I have never written before,
but it strikes me that later neither I,
nor anyone else,
will care for the outpouring
of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank
#93. he watched it with curiosity. It was strange to be conscious of another person's existence, to feel it as a close, urgent necessity; a necessity without qualifications, neither pleasant nor painful, merely final like an ultimatum.
Ayn Rand
#94. An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality.
Iain M. Banks
#95. He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.
Bruce Robinson
#96. 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
#97. Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.
Lloyd Alexander
#98. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?
Anais Nin
#99. Nobody really turns out too happy in any of my stuff. It's really strange, because I'm actually a pretty happy person. I'm not walking around giggling or anything like that, but I've got this feeling that everything is okay with my life.
Donald Ray Pollock
#100. He experienced a strange reaction to the sight, a nearly overwhelming urge to go over to her, shove her back on the bed, and take her without preliminaries. To dominate her, and force her to admit his ownership.
Lisa Kleypas
