Strange Quotes - page 15

We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. (Carson McCullers)
Often, when you look at history, at least through the lens that many of us have looked at history - high school and college courses - a lot of the color gets bled out of it. You're left with a time period that does not look as strange and irrational as the time you're actually living through. View quote
Karen Joy Fowler
Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it. View quote
L.J. Smith
How strange that the world should change because of words, and words change because of the world. View quote
Louis de Bernieres
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling. View quote
LaToya Jackson
For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not. View quote
Tony Iommi
If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. View quote
Kevin J. Anderson
Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood? View quote
Anita Desai
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country. View quote
Bill Brandt
It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say. View quote
Laura Dern
Strange, he thought, how seldom people tend to look up. (John Flanagan)
He'd just have to lie there and die, watched over by strange stars who didn't know him, didn't care for him. It was very sad, really. View quote
John Flanagan
Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there. View quote
Neil Jordan
I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people. View quote
Ziggy Marley
I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain. View quote
Cathy Guisewite
I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. View quote
Michel Legrand
Yet a part of you still believes you can fight and survive no matter what your mind knows. It's not so strange. Where there's still life, there's still hope. What happens is up to God. View quote
Louis Zamperini
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. View quote
Mike Myers
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. View quote
Grandma Moses
Everybody needs a way out of that pain. Many people choose drugs and alcohol. Some people obsessively exercise or develop strange dietary habits, which is what I did. At least it got me toward a path of healthier living. View quote
Mariel Hemingway
I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange. (Mark Z. Danielewski)
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad. View quote
Natsuki Takaya
In terms of sexual orientation I don't really feel I've changed. I don't feel there was a hidden part of my sexuality that I wasn't aware of. I'd been with men all my life, and I'd never fallen in love with a woman. But when I did, it didn't seem so strange. View quote
Cynthia Nixon
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. View quote
Flann O'Brien
I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person. View quote
Phoebe Tonkin