Top 1200 Strange Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

As an actor, I belong to a strange slot, where you may have all sorts of roles in your kitty.

I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.

'Hamlet' is a play of many strange parts, with ghosts and players, politicians and clowns.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

All things in this creation exist within you and all things in you exist in creation; there is no border between you and the closest things, and there is no distance between you and the farthest things, and all things, from the lowest to the loftiest, from the smallest to the greatest, are within you as equal things.

I feel like that would be pretty strange to meet a voice actor as a kid.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

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.

There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.

And there is also the paradox that the dominating culture imbues the Indian past with great meaning and significance; it is valued more because it is seen as part of the past. And it is the romantic past, not the present, that holds meaning and spiritual significance for so many members of the dominating culture. 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.

Yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.

His face was just strange enough that she wanted to keep looking at it.

Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.

A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.

The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly.

Dogs are very strange, but they're wonderful and they love to cuddle, and their breath is so stinky!

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

I write about the things that happen to us all. The things that are tough, the things that matter, from a loved one fighting an illness, to losing a job, being betrayed by somebody you trust, all parts of the human condition. No one is exempt from those things.

It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

Microsoft was not a mysterious, strange entity. You put your PC on and there's an ad for them.

It is strange, but directors have always shown more confidence in my abilities than I've in myself.

In a strange way, becoming a grandfather is like starting your life over.

Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.

I think [Doctor Strange] it is - it does tap into a supernatural type of genre that is not horror.

Some kids look at me strange in the hallways because I don't decorate my locker.

It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Today I had a strange warning. I felt the wind of insanity brush my mind.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.

That's a really strange, unique position to be in - royalty is where you have no choice over what your duties are.

It's such a strange combination that I'd be unhappy to make anything like that without Landis directing.

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

Comedy is very strange to me and I don't fully understand it's purpose or function.

It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

I'd known since I was 17 that I was going to be a star. It was a strange feeling but a very real one.

And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

I was a little jealous of the levitation cloak but I was happy to be comfortable [on Doctor Strange set].

Acting is a strange profession, and, yes, sometimes I struggle with its worth, its value in the world.

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't.

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

Naturally, in this period, there are also some ups and downs, and this is nothing strange.

Few, as I have said, are the humorists who can induce this state. To master and dissolve us, to give us the joy of being worn down and tired out with laughter, is a success to be won by no man save in virtue of a rare staying-power. Laughter becomes extreme only if it be consecutive. There must be no pauses for recovery. Touch-and-go humour, however happy, is not enough. The jester must be able to grapple his theme and hang on to it, twisting it this way and that, and making it yield magically all manner of strange and precious things.

The kid come in at a strange angle, made the notes glitter like crystal.

Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!

Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them