Strange Quotes - page 13

Bayle turned to watch the drifting mists along the shore and thought: In three days we have eaten with this Captain four times, talked with him about navigation, his three families, his collection of miniature clay idols, and have all decided he is a deep and impressive, if somewhat absentminded man. Yes, save I take this same ship returning, I may never see him again. Strange are the ways of travel. (Samuel R. Delany)
I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life, who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh, and get angry, and be happy, and be sad, and excited, and even fall in love a little....And they didn't seem to be so weird or strange anymore. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange. View quote
Solange Knowles
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It's strange the times people choose to be generous. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality. View quote
Susanna Clarke
She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales. View quote
Susanna Clarke
Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. "I suppose a magician might,” he admitted, "but a gentleman never could. (Susanna Clarke)
It [Ashfair House] was an old fashioned house-the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in. View quote
Susanna Clarke
About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary? View quote
Susan Beth Pfeffer
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see. View quote
Tim Burton
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. View quote
Wilbur Smith
You don't want to be rude but you have to be careful - there are a lot of strange people out there. (Goldman attributes this quote to Cliff Robertson.) View quote
William Goldman
I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. View quote
Philip K. Dick
Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer..." "Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said. View quote
Anthony Horowitz
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. View quote
Hannah Kent
She took a deep breath, "Last chance. Are you in need of rescuing?" His expression turned very strange, almost as if she'd struck him, "Yes," he said finally. View quote
Holly Black
The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can understand something as to how the motives that issue from this obscurity are generated, we can hardly hope to foresee or control them. (Charles Cooley)
A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. View quote
Charles Cooley
... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it. View quote
Shannon Hale
The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day. View quote
Shannon Hale
Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods. View quote
Charles Nodier