Strange Quotes - page 75

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places. (Seth MacFarlane)
A formidable range of phenomena must be scientifically sifted before we effectually grasp a faculty so strange, so bewildering, and for ages so inscrutable as the direct action of mind on mind. View quote
William Crookes
Telepathy, the transmission of thought and images directly from one mind to another without the agency of the recognized organs of sense, is a conception new and strange to science. View quote
William Crookes
Fame is a very strange animal. View quote
Adam Lambert
Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy. View quote
Val Kilmer
I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really? View quote
Val Kilmer
I get embarrassed a lot of times getting attention, but I like being onstage. Do you know what I mean? If I'm in a crowd of people and they're all looking at me, I will feel embarrassed. It's a strange dichotomy. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
What led me to be an actor is that I have a strange something in me that can drastically change the way I appear to the world. Growing up, I couldn't understand why people would always have different ideas of me - but because of that I became aware of how you can manipulate your own ability to change. And then I learned to make a career of it. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
The model I came up with in 1964 is just the invention of a rather strange sort of medium that looks the same in all directions and produces a kind of refraction that is a little bit more complicated than that of light in glass or water. View quote
Peter Higgs
I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it. View quote
Nick Cave
I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange. (Alexis Bledel)
The amount of speculation surrounding my romantic life is astounding. It's strange how involved people get: invested and angry, really disappointed. View quote
Sienna Miller
Film sets are a strange place, but an exciting place. I do love my work; I really enjoy going to work. But if you just spend all your time on film sets or even on stage, you can become a Michael Jackson figure, living in your own little universe. View quote
James McAvoy
I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!' View quote
James McAvoy
I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange. View quote
James McAvoy
I'm a fan myself, so when a fan does something that might be strange, I understand it. View quote
Benicio Del Toro
God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf To him man's dearer than to himself. View quote
Ben Jonson
Education helps one case cease being intimidated by strange situations. View quote
Maya Angelou
It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill. View quote
Kelsey Grammer
"Great-grandfather died under strange circumstances. He opened a vein in his bath." "I never knew baths had veins," protested Gabrilowitsch." "I never knew his great-grandfather had a ba-" began Falcovsky derisively. View quote
S. J. Perelman
She didn't seem dead. There was only a swelling of the lips, as if she were angry. The strange thing was her idea of renting a painter's studio, having an armchiar, no less, drawn up s she could die in front of the window that looked toward Superga. A cat had given her away–it was in the room with her, and the next day, miaowing and scratching the door, it had made them open. (Cesare Pavese)
He told them it was only dogs that bark and go for strange dogs, and men set on a dog because it suits them to show that they are still masters, but if the dogs weren't dumb animals they would come to an agreements with each other and start barking at them. View quote
Cesare Pavese
I believe in some sort of strange fashion that the presence of the atom bomb might almost be forcing a level of human development that wouldn't have occurred without the presence of the atom bomb. View quote
Alan Moore
There is something strange looming on the human horizon. If you draw a graph of all our consciousness, there is a point we seem to be heading towards. View quote
Alan Moore
The pines smell sweet in the frozen air, and their silhoutte's just fading there, the wolves crouch close, against the snow but where we're running I don't know, In villages and soft sad towns the candles sway as night comes down, cold bones creak and strange beasts cry, watching shadows in the sky... All I have, all I need, all I got.....is providence. ~ Providence. View quote
Steve Kilbey