Strange Quotes - page 84

My father identified as a black man. No one asked him because he was clearly black. But people always ask me. If we were together, people would look at us in a really strange way. It sucked. As a little girl I had blond hair and they'd look at me, look at him, and be disgusted. (Mariah Carey)
Princes in their infancy, childhood, and youth, are said to discover prodigious parts and wit, to speak things that surprise and astonish; strange, so many hopeful princes* and so many shameful kings ! If they happen to die young, they would have been prodigies of wisdom and virtue : if they live, they are often prodigies indeed, but of another sort. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I don't think anyone except the few people who have played James Bond can tell you how strange and special it is and how much your life changes. View quote
Timothy Dalton
There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses. View quote
Louis Aragon
You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day. View quote
Wole Soyinka
Well, I was sitting opposite of her one day, with my back to the window, listening to her flow of rhetoric. She had an impressive dream the night before, in which someone had given her a golden scarab-a costly piece of jewellery. While she was still telling me this dream, I heard something behind me gently tapping on the window. I turned round and saw that it was a fairly large flying insect that was knocking against the window from outside in the obvious effort to get into the dark room. This seemed to me very strange. I opened the window and immediately and caught the insect in the air as it flew in. It was a scarabaeid beetle, or common rose-chafer, whose gold-green color most nearly resembles that of a golden scarab. I handed the beetle to my patient with the words "Here is your scarab." View quote
Carl Jung
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. View quote
Douglas Adams
I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world. View quote
Keira Knightley
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them. View quote
Keira Knightley
There was a boy A very strange enchanted boy... View quote
Eden Ahbez
I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' (Nicolas Cage)
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. View quote
Nicolas Cage
I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones. View quote
Sophia Loren
The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say. View quote
Sandra Cisneros
Our affluent society contains those of talent and insight who are driven to prefer poverty, to choose it, rather than to submit to the desolation of an empty abundance. It is a strange part of the other America that one finds in the intellectual slums. View quote
Michael Harrington
The worst criminals were not the men who did the deed. The crime of mobs and courtiers, infuriated by the lust of vengeance and of power, is not so strange a portent as the exultation of peaceful men, influenced by no present injury or momentary rage, but by the permanent and incurable perversion of moral sense wrought by a distorted piety. View quote
John W. Campbell
I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's other people who like it too. View quote
Ben Folds
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his nineties and one day passed away in his sleep. And his wife, she stayed for a couple of days and passed away. I'm sorry, I know that's a strange way to tell you that I know we belong. View quote
Ben Folds
As it is so strangely ordained in this world, what is amusing will turn into being gloomy, if you stand too long before it, and then God knows what ideas may not stray into the mind... Why is it that even in moments of unthinking, careless gaiety a different and strange mood comes upon one? View quote
Nikolai Gogol
The strange American ardor for passing laws, the insane belief in regulation and punishment, plays into the hands of the reformers, most of them quacks themselves. Their efforts, even when honest, seldom accomplish any appreciable good. View quote
H. L. Mencken
My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see. (Muhammad Yunus)
There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. View quote
Jessica Alba
It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will. View quote
Judy Blume
Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable. View quote
Werner Herzog
But the advocates of slavery have affirmed a strange doctrine in regard to the Constitution. They think that because I swore to support the Constitution, I swore to support the practice of slaveholding. Sir, slaveholding in Virginia is no more under the control or guarantee of the Constitution than slavery in Cuba, or Brazil, or any other part of the world is under the control or guarantee of the Constitution. Not one principle. View quote
Owen Lovejoy