Quotes About The Strange Things

#1. 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

#2. One of the strange things about imaginary food is that it allows us to take pleasure in reading about things that we would never want to eat in real life.

Bee Wilson

#3. Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

Salman Rushdie

#5. You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.

Edward Norton

#6. One of the strange things about human beings is that they value only that which has a price.

Napoleon Hill

#7. One of the strange things about grief is the way it ambushes you when you least expect it.

J.P. Delaney

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. Fling arrows at all the strange things you see out here, and all you do is run out of arrows.

Scott Lynch

#12. 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

#13. Women have done strange things; they are a far greater puzzle to the student of human nature than the sterner, less complex sex has ever been.

Emmuska Orczy

#14. 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

#15. All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

Marcus Aurelius

#16. Two things in America are astonishing: the changeableness of most human behavior and the strange stability of certain principles. Men are constantly on the move, but the spirit of humanity seems almost unmoved.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#17. There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

Henry Adams

#18. 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

#19. They feel very stupid and strange, the things going through your mind. You're making us very tired, with all your thinking of stupid imaginary impossible things.

Orson Scott Card

#20. Music can imply the infinite if enough things depart from the norm far enough. Strange "abnormal" events can lead to the feeling that anything can happen, and you have a music with no boundaries.

Morton Feldman

#21. Relax and give the play a chance to strut its stuff - relax, stop wondering what it's all 'about' - like many strange and familiar things, Life included, this Play isn't 'about,' it simply is. Don't try to enjoy it, let it try to enjoy you. Don't try to understand it, let it try to understand you.

E. E. Cummings

#22. 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

#23. I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#24. Flesh does strange things to memory. Pain and joy both alter it. When you are happy, you remember things one way. When you are sad, you remember them another. And sometimes the flesh does not admit that memory is real at all or plucks false memories out of thin air.

Tanya Karen Gough

#25. Minion looked into the fragile belly of the duck for the third time. 'It's still not here, Master.' He shook his head in a slow, confused fashion. 'Strange things are afoot at the Circle K.

Lish McBride

#26. With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

Marketa Irglova

#27. The cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see.

H.P. Lovecraft

#28. It is my hope that photography may fall in line with all the other arts and with her infinite possibilities, do things strange and more fascinating than the most fantastic dreams.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

#29. 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

#30. Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Blaise Pascal

#31. Man's sensitivity to little things and insensitivity to the greatest things are marks of a strange disorder.

Blaise Pascal

#32. 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

#33. Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

Christopher Fry

#34. 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

#35. When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country.

J.K. Rowling

#36. Those moments in between the moments, those are the most interesting. What's unspoken, the way we talk around things, the way our actions are inconsistent with what we're feeling, how anger and affection manifest themselves in strange ways at inappropriate times.

Stanley Tucci

#37. 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

#38. Beyond wildest dreams, strange things happened to people when they were ready for the unusual and the unexpected.

Elif Shafak

#39. Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging ...

Han Suyin

#40. Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together?
Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.

Emery Allen

#41. When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

Denis Diderot

#42. Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Charles Lindbergh

#43. Thoughts are strange things. they have 'representational' powers: a thought typically represents the world as being one way or another. A sensation, by contrast, seems to just sit there.

Simon Blackburn

#44. The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

Paul McCartney

#45. It's so strange that the more successful you become, the more people want to give you things. And the more you can afford, the more people want to give you things for nothing. It doesn't seem right.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

#46. It's strange," he said, "when he was alive, I didna pay him much heed. But once he was dead, the things he'd told me had a good deal more influence.

Diana Gabaldon

#47. Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

Mason Cooley

#48. It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

James Weldon Johnson

#49. During the course of the day, I write things down, things I don't do anything with. Then, when I get ready to start recording, I just look through my books and I see if I can find something that stands out. That's how I come up with the off-the-wall-kinda-strange-indirect-stuff.

Bootsy Collins

#50. Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#51. Second letter from Mom:
So! What if you colored the world? This still does not seem a great thing. In fact it seems very natural that you eventually got to paint the entire world. Those colors of yours were always strange; they didn't go away since you were born.

Elena D. Calin

#52. It bothered him a little to lie about small things. But he always had; he had grown up lying, and he still found it strange that the people in this place where he now lived thought lying was wrong. To Matty, it was sometimes a way of making things easier, more comfortable, more convenient.

Lois Lowry

#53. It is strange ... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.

C. Kennedy

#54. It is said that in Ulthar, which lies beyond the river Skai, no man may kill a cat; and this I can verily believe as I gaze upon him who sitteth purring before the fire. For the cat is cryptic, and close to strange things which men cannot see. He

H.P. Lovecraft

#55. It has seemed so strange to me that the larger culture, with its own absence of spirit and lack of attachment for the land, respects these very things about Indian traditions, without adopting those respected ways themselves.

Linda Hogan

#56. To me, NASA is kind of the magical kingdom. I was sort of a geek, and you go there, and there are just these wondrously strange things and people.

Mary Roach

#57. Nienor ran on into the woods until she was spent, and then fell, and slept, and awoke; and it was a sunlit morning, and she rejoiced in light as it were a new thing, and all things else that she saw seemed new and strange, for she had no names for them.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#58. Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.'
Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look.
I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

W. Somerset Maugham

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. She barely understands her dreams of belly button rings and other kind of things. Symbolic of change, but the thing that is strange, it that the changes occur, and now she's just a part of the herd.

Jack Johnson

#62. 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

#63. It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

Henry David Thoreau

#64. 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

#65. The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

Sallie Tisdale

#66. A ssure you, the more I travel through time, the more I witness, the more I realize that there are things that are both strange and wonderful, far beyond human comprehension.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#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. 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

#69. And then, for an hour, he became aware of the strange life he was leading, of him doing lots of things which were only a game, of, though being happy and feeling joy at times, real life still passing him by and not touching him

Hermann Hesse

#70. What was at all events not permanently hidden from him was a truth much less invidious about his years of darkness. It was the strange scheme of things again: the years of darkness had been needed to render possible the years of light.

Henry James

#71. Clearly, he had his own strange way of judging things. I suspect he acquired it from the Gospels.

Victor Hugo

#72. 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

#73. After Leaving Las Vegas I did assume that things would get a lot easier than they've been. But it's just been a mirror of the way my career's been from the beginning, so for it to have changed would have been strange. My career has never been perfect.

Elisabeth Shue

#74. Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.

Woodrow Wilson

#75. 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

#76. It came from the woods. Most strange things do.

Emily Carroll

#77. 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

#78. The world was big and full of weird things and strange people.

Haruki Murakami

#79. You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found ...

Rebecca Solnit

#80. ... but then boys are so strange with their toys. Especially those accustomed to losing things. They hold on more tightly than the rest.

Victoria Aveyard

#81. When in the end, the day came on which I was going away, I learned the strange learning that things can happen which we ourselves cannot possibly imagine, either beforehand, or at the time when they are taking place, or afterwards when we look back on them.

Karen Blixen

#82. And then I felt a strange stirring inside, a kind of surging fulfillment, a feeling that things were just the way they should be, now and evermore, world without end; that what was brought together here must never be rent asunder.

Jeff Lindsay

#83. It is one of the strange ironies of this strange life that those who work the hardest, who subject themselves to the strictest discipline, who give up certain pleasurable things in order to achieve a goal, are the happiest.

Brutus Hamilton

#84. The world is not simple. The world is not one place. It's the sum of an impossible number of incomprehensible things, and if you start out on any road in the world and follow it for any distance at all, sooner or later you enter into a strange country.

Kate Milford

#85. It's strange how can lose things that are still right there. How a barrier can go up at any moment, trapping you on the other side, keeping you from what you want. How the things that hurt the most are things we once had.

Robyn Schneider

#86. As we see, he had a strange and peculiar way of judging things. I suspect that he acquired it from the Gospel.

Victor Hugo

#87. How strange it is to view a town you grew up in, not in wonderment through the eyes of youth, but with the eyes of a historian on the way things were.

Marvin Allan Williams

#88. Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

Jorge Luis Borges

#89. Vengeance is a strange human motivation
it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor could achieve without it ... and because of that it lies behind some of the greatest sagas of human literature!

H. Beam Piper

#90. 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

#91. It's strange how many ways there are to miss someone. You miss the things they did and who they were, but you also miss who you were to them. The way everything you said and did was beautiful or entertaining or important. How much you mattered

Robin Roe

#92. It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.

Neil Gaiman

#93. 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

#94. The Cowardly Lion laughed, and said: I have always thought myself very big and terrible; yet such little things as flowers came near to killing me, and such small animals as mice have saved my life. How strange it all is! But,

L. Frank Baum

#95. Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Jason Reitman

#96. As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Hugh Dancy

#97. Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

Amy Dickinson

#98. People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with sheep who don't say anything at all.

Paulo Coelho

#99. The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films,

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#100. The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

Desi Arnaz