Strange Quotes - page 6

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. (Henry James)
No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong. View quote
Henry James
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
It's a strange courage you give me ancient star:Shine alone in the sunrise toward which you lend no part! View quote
William Carlos Williams
It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature. View quote
John Ruskin
A check girl in peach-bloom Chinese pajamas came over to take my hat and disapprove of my clothes. She had eyes like strange sins. View quote
Raymond Chandler
We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating ... second, that however bizarre and arcane our world might be, nature remains potentially comprehensible to the human mind. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that I when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and couldn't be. All the choices I didn't make. All the things I lost and spent and wasted. I can give them back to the world. To the lives that haven't been lived yet. That will be my gift back to the world that gave me the life I did live, the love I lived, the breath I breathed. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
Lord! what a strange world in which a man cannot remain unique even by taking the trouble to go mad! View quote
G. K. Chesterton
It is strange that there should be so little reading in the world, and so much writing. People in general do not willingly read, if they can have any thing else to amuse them. (Samuel Johnson)
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. View quote
Fred Hoyle
Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed. View quote
Daniel Keyes
Still we say as we go,- "Strange to think by the way Whatever there is to know, That shall we know one day." View quote
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
A wonderful physical tie binds the parents to the children; and - by some sad, strange irony - it does not bind us children to our parents. For if it did, if we could answer their love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy. View quote
E. M. Forster
[T]he rare earth elements perplex us in our researches, baffle us in our speculations, and haunt us in our very dreams. They stretch like an unknown sea before us mocking, mystifying and murmuring strange revelations and possibilities. View quote
William Crookes
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. View quote
Emil Cioran
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard. View quote
Billy Joel
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records. View quote
Richard Branson
A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodg'd in this fair world appear, Strange all and new to me; But that they mine should be who nothing was, That strangest is of all; yet brought to pass. (Thomas Traherne)
Strange is the vigour in a brave man's soul. The strength of his spirit and his irresistible power, the greatness of his heart and the height of his condition, his mighty confidence and contempt of danger, his true security and repose in himself, his liberty to dare and do what he pleaseth, his alacrity in the midst of fears, his invincible temper, are advantages which make him master of fortune. View quote
Thomas Traherne
All the movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds. View quote
David Lynch
Much like the French (or like ourselves, their apes),Who with strange habit do disguise their shapes;Who loving novels, full of affectation,Receive the manners of each other nation. View quote
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery. View quote
Scott Lynch