Strange Quotes - page 16

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind. (Edward Thorndike)
When you have a character to work with, you carry them around in a strange way - they make you look at the world in a different way. View quote
Ben Whishaw
My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange. View quote
Florence Welch
It feels strange to have spen much time wishing for something, for someone and then one day, suddenly, to just stop. View quote
Jenny Han
Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out. View quote
Renny Harlin
We always thought it strange that nobody was up on that stage playing soul stuff. Maybe people were playing it in their garages, like us, but they always reverted to pure rock when they got on stage. View quote
Michael Hutchence
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. View quote
Hu Shih
For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples. View quote
Hu Shih
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo! View quote
Annie Leibovitz
But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on. View quote
Alex Winter
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. (Alfred Einstein)
It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music. View quote
Alice Englert
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. View quote
Alice Hamilton
I'm not sure how to describe my style. A lot of my work is dark and looks a bit sad, which is strange because I'm such a smiley, over-the-top positive guy who wears gold shoes most days. View quote
Aaron Huey
Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. View quote
Aaron Peirsol
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s. View quote
Ann Wilson
It doesnt seem to me strange that children should like the macabre, the sensational, and the forbidden. View quote
Anthony Hecht
I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being rejected repeatedly, and self-publication was an act of defiance at traditional publishing. But life works in strange ways. View quote
Ashwin Sanghi
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system. View quote
Adam Riess
That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way. View quote
Adam Yauch
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word. (Buffalo Bill)
I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it. View quote
Ben Daniels
Starting out, I bet I didn't get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I'm not consciously thinking, 'Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.' It's just what my voice has done. View quote
Charlie Day
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you. View quote
Chiwetel Ejiofor
It was strange at times. We had to make out so much that we kind of got over it. It was really awkward. View quote
Clea DuVall