Top 1200 Strange World Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

The world would be a strange place if everyone liked each other.

If you look at the paintings that I love in art history, these are the paintings where great, powerful men are being celebrated on the big walls of museums throughout the world. What feels really strange is not to be able to see a reflection of myself in that world.

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

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.

L.A. is a bit strange. It doesn't seem like the real world.

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

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

It's strange how few of the world's great problems are solved by people who remember their algebra.

It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.

Over half the world menstruates at one time or another, but you'd never know it. Isn't that strange?

I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

I find myself in a new and strange position here: President, cabinet, Gen. Scott, and all deferring to me. By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight weeks at a time.

It was a narrow world, a world that was standing still. But the narrower it became, the more it betook of stillness, the more this world that enveloped me seemed to overflow with things and people that could only be called strange. They had been there all the while, it seemed, waiting in the shadows for me to stop moving. And every time the wind-up bird came to my yard to wind its spring, the world descendedmore deeply into chaos.

Overhead, the two moons worked together to bathe the world in a strange light.

This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

What a strange world we live in...Said Alice to the Queen of hearts

... every time you look at the world and the people in it closely, lovingly, imaginatively, it changes you. The world, under the microscope of your attention, opens up like a beautiful, strange flower and gives itself back to you in ways you could never imagine.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

What a strange world it is, where prisoners are left their weapons and the written word is a mortal danger.

Strange thoughts beget strange deeds.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

I suppose I could claim that I had suspected that the world was a cheap and shoddy sham, a bad cover for something deeper and weirder and infinitely more strange, and that, in some way, I already know the truth. But I think that's just how the world has always been. And even now I know the truth, the world still seems cheap and shoddy. Different world, different shoddy, but that's how it feels.

People are incredibly rude about it sometimes. Like "What? You're married?" Strange reaction to have. Proves what people's ideas about marriage are. "We're having a baby." "What?" As if it's the end of the world. Of course, it's the start of a brilliant world.

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?

It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.

Everybody seems to be wasting their time online. There is such a narcissistic attitude. It's such a strange world.

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.

I think, in this strange world of beautiful things, there may be some humanity after all.

We wanted people to remember the name as soon as they heard it. When people become so accustomed to the Wii name, nobody is going to say it's a strange name, just like nobody is going to say that Google is a strange name or IKEA is a strange name today.

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

As we sit here and idly chat, there are woman, female human beings, rolling around in strange beds with strange men, and we are making money from that.

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

To see the world for a moment as something rich and strange is the private reward of many a discovery.

[ Stephen Strange] is less strange than other characters I've played. He's lost the power to love, which doesn't make him a nasty person. I just think he's closed-off.

Being actors is a strange job. To try to go live that out, it's a very strange thing to want to do when you step back and think about it.

The only thing I hope for is that, regardless of what the outward world is for different people, different nations, I hope their internal world is similar. And if I, hopefully, have managed to somehow describe my inner world in this book, all I count on is that it will have some resonance among the American readers, or, at the very least, the American readers will treat this book as a kind of a guidebook for my inner world, strange as it may appear.

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

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

Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.

The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.

My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

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

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.