Strange Quotes - page 81

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority. (Henry Rollins)
I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today. View quote
China Miéville
One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song. View quote
Manfred Mann
The strange flavour of AI work is that people try to put together long sets of rules in strict formalisms which tell inflexible machines how to be flexible. View quote
Douglas Hofstadter
The millions that I would fear are those who do not dream of the prizes that the nation holds forth, for it is in them, though they may not know it, that a revolution has taken place and is biding its time to translate itself into a new and strange way of life. View quote
Richard Wright
And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth. That was the deep fun of the job; to feel within my body that I was pushing out to new areas of feeling, strange landmarks of emotion, tramping upon foreign soil, compounding new relationships of perceptions, making new and - until that very split second of time! View quote
Richard Wright
I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? ... There was once a book, more famous for its title than for its contents, called the Strange Death of Liberal England. View quote
Roy Jenkins
They were strange, the facts about them: their staying inside by day, their avoidance of garlic, their death by stake, their reputed fear of crosses, their supposed dread of mirrors. View quote
Richard Matheson
I don't get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies. View quote
Jennifer Aniston
Alone he rides, alone, The fair and fatal king: Dark night is all his own, That strange and solemn thing. View quote
Lionel Johnson
A lot of [my] songs have various strange oddities in them - usually this is the result of late-night dementia. (Andrew Sega)
I thought it strange that medical science spent billions of dollars trying to find a cure for the common cold, and it did nothing to try to stop the aging process. It seemed insane that we were all going to die and nobody talked about it, asked why, or even looked for an answer to it. View quote
Ray Comfort
If those papers had been in my pocket I would have never lived to be seventy. I have led a strange life, a set of complete coincidences. View quote
Abraham Pais
It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me. View quote
Tommy Lee
The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them. View quote
David Icke
Would you define Good for me, Citizen Abbot?” "Certainly. Good is that force within us which inspires men to acts of conformity and subservience. The worship of Good is essentially the worship of oneself, and therefore the only true worship. The self which one worships is the ideal social being: the man content in his niche in society, yet ready to creatively advance his status. Good is gentle, since it is a true reflection of the loving and pitying universe. Good is continually changing in its aspects, although it comes to us in the... You have a strange look on your face, young man. View quote
Robert Sheckley
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box. View quote
George Orwell
As I was brought up in this tradition myself I can recognise it under strange disguises, and also sympathise with it, for even at its stupidest and most sentimental it is a comelier thing than the shallow self-righteousness of the left-wing intelligentsia. View quote
George Orwell
People are never quite so strange to each other as when they are forced into artificial, crowded and stifled relationship. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacythe strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men. A weird life it is to be living always in somebody elses imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could become real. View quote
Thomas Merton
Hinduism is like a great reservoir of water from which many streams take their rise and to which they again repair after passing through many strange and fair lands. It is a great, creative matrix giving birth to many beautiful and living forms. Itself a historical, it has given birth to many sects and branches with interesting, chequered histories. Paying sole allegiance to the Guide within seated in the cave of the heart, it has put forward from time to time many teachers and sages of incomparable power and vision, incarnating the very Gods above and within. (Ram Swarup)
History moves in strange ways. View quote
Ram Swarup
And I think I find, I know a lot of people around, in different cities, and so it's not - it might sound strange - but it's not that hard to say good-bye, because I know there's other people where I'm going. I can sort of fit in in a lot of places. View quote
Joe Sacco
With government money comes government control” is an axiom in any country. But the situation in India is unique with regard to minority religions. Under Article 30 of the constitution, "minority” religions are allowed to run educational institutions free from government control, but remain equally eligible for government funding as are institutions run by members of the "majority” religion. For the purposes of the constitution, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs are considered "Hindus” and hence part of the majority religion. Effectively the provision applies only to Muslims, Christians, and anyone who can get themselves declared a minority religion. One strange consequence of this is that the Vira Saivites of South India successfully argued earlier this century for minority status... View quote
Ram Swarup
Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist. View quote
Julie Burchill