Strange Quotes - page 7

The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange. (Neil Gaiman)
It's strange: We leave the movie having enjoyed its conclusion so much that we almost forgot our earlier reservations. But they were there, and they were real. View quote
Roger Ebert
It is strange how the romances of the teenage years retain a poignancy all through life - how a girl who turns you down when you're 16 retains an aura in your memory even long after you, and she, have ceased to be who you were then. I attended my high school reunion a couple of weeks ago and discovered, in the souvenir booklet assembled by the reunion committee, that one of the girls in my class had a crush on me all those years ago. I would have given a great deal to have had that information at the time. View quote
Roger Ebert
Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange” (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations. View quote
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day; Lies worse, and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest. Strange cozenage! none would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And from the dregs of life think to receive What the first sprightly running could not give. View quote
John Dryden
I am infinitely strange to myself. View quote
John Fowles
The ways of love are strange and hard: the love you want is always barred; the love you have you want to change. The ways of love are hard and strange. View quote
Orson Scott Card
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II, nothing that happened in the Pacific was strange or unexpected. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. (Nicholas Sparks)
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer. View quote
Charisma Carpenter
I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I'm not sure if that comes across or not. View quote
Joanna Newsom
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again How strange it seems, and new. View quote
Robert Browning
What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex. View quote
Madeline Kahn
Tell me some true things about fighting.' 'Tell me you love me.' 'I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The world is a strange and wonderful place. View quote
Laurie Anderson
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? (Clarice Lispector)
"One person ought to treat another person properly, even if the person's himself." "What a strange idea!" Mordion said. View quote
Diana Wynne Jones
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me. View quote
Edith Cavell
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. View quote
Brian Aldiss
Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. View quote
Ken Kesey