Top 1200 Strange Way Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

It's a little strange to become a kind of symbol of a whole type of analysis.

There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria.

Why not do something strange and different for once? Artists can do whatever they want!

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

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

I don't love being thought of as Neil's barnacle. It's a strange shadow to follow.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Sydney: I like Latin. It's fun. Eddie: I can't believe you think we're the strange ones.

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

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.

It's strange that we don't see more English players going to the Spanish league.

With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of 9:1 could be in favour of a ban in my constituency, but I would not regard that as conclusive, and I hope that we never would. If we start having opinion polls about all the unpleasant and distasteful habits and customs of some members of society, and suggesting that their findings should be made part of the criminal law, foxhunting would come way down the list, and quite a lot of strange enactments would have to go through the House.

I think it's fair to say that, yeah, I'm playing Doctor Strange, I get there.

My wife and I are really strange people. We never spend any money.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

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

I do think it's interesting when people are born into families that at one point had huge amounts of money and that money has kind of vanished over the generations and they're sort of the last vestiges. You see that these people live really quite modestly and yet, somehow the way the clothes fit them, they still have some kind of strange genetic advantage over the rest of us. There's always these weird things in which you detect the legacy. There's a pair of cufflinks that you look at and go, "Oh, my God! These had to come from the Romanovs."

It's a well known thing that ordinary perceptions can have a strange aspect when one is travelling.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.

It's amazing: I am a New Yorker. It's strange; I never thought I would be.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice.

If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.

When you lose a parent, it's a strange feeling. It's a hard thing to get used to.

The easy way is efficacious and speedy, the hard way arduous and long. But, as the clock ticks, the easy way becomes harder and the hard way becomes easier. And as the calendar records the years, it becomes increasingly evident that the easy way rests hazardously upon shifting sands, whereas the hard way builds solidly a foundation of confidence that cannot be swept away.

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

You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed

If you don't have the best player in the world in the team, it would be strange if you didn't notice the difference.

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.

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

Carved with figures strange and sweet, All made out of the carver's brain.

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.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

In a certain way, it's the sound of the words, the inflection and the way the song is sung and the way it fits the melody and the way the syllables are on the tongue that has as much of the meaning as the actual, literal words.

You know, women are acting the way they want to act now. Years ago they would hide it in the way they dressed, the way they speak, even the way they act in bed. Today, they're doing the same thing, but they're dressing the way they want to be treated and, when you're with them, acting the way they want to act. And you know, honesty is the best policy. I love that.

Wherever I go, I am Italian. The way I talk, the way I eat, the way femininity is important to me. The way I love Italian food.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

I was always fascinated by the infinite, strange and 'scandalous' ways that insects copulate.

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

Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

I'm learning to say 'y'all' and, I like grits... Strange things are happening to me.

Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.

Strange secrets are let out by Death Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.

Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.

If you come across an insane person who's talking gibberish, you can't make any sense of it at all and that would be one way that enlightenment is different. If you read Dogen, a lot of his stuff is very strange and is coming from a different place than what we're used to, but at the same time, it's not senseless ramblings and that's part of what attracted me to Dogen. I didn't get it, but it was sane. It's not some guy raving about UFO's or Moses living in his bathtub, it's was actually something sane that I just didn't get, if that makes sense?

Don't wear eyeliner with too much facial hair. It looks strange.

When he smiled, something strange happened to my insides. It was like they turned to liquid.