Strange Quotations | Page 4

What a strange family you are! Is your name Lettie too?

For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.

What a strange turn of events.

I am a comedian but it's usually not a compliment to be called a prop comedian but I guess I sometimes use props. And I always confuse humorist with comedian. That's strange.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.

Wherever it's good, whatever strange, faraway land, let's go there, let's stay in that place alone.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

For some strange reason, no matter where I go, the place is always called "here".

[Pablo]Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did. He left Málaga, practically at the same time and age that I did.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

It is strange how in some things honest people can be dishonest without the slightest compunction.

This was a strange game. I was as happy as 10 men to only be down only four at halftime.

This was a strange day, but overall it was OK. All other things being equal, we should open higher tomorrow.

What strange creatures brothers are!

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

purple does something strange to me

We have received a note today from the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. It seemed very strange to us.

We've seen some strange things happen at the end. This time around doesn't guarantee anything in the future, but this time around we didn't have any strange things happen.

The fact of the matter is, the economy moves in strange ways, and politicians move in even stranger ways.

There is a strange glow on the face of a guileless person. Inner cleanliness has its own soap and water - the soap of strong faith and the water of constant practice.

When I did hit a fairway, I three-putted. Go figure that one out. It doesn't make sense. Strange game.

We shall have a much changed line-up that's for sure. There have been a lot of strange results in this league recently, fingers crossed ours will go to plan on Saturday.

It’s a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It’s the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

Do not reject anything because it is new or strange, and do not sneer nor jeer at what comes from the Lord, for if we do, we endanger our salvation.

A strange alternative * * *Must women have a doctor or a dance?

We live in a strange bubble.

Jealousy is a strange transformer of characters.

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

This is a strange game.

I enjoy all kinds of music. But it is kind of strange when I do parodies, instead of setting up drums and guitar amps.

When you're 11, walking home from school through this strange little English landscape, running these weird, wonderful things through your head ... well, now this is one of those 'I've never told anybody this before' things,

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

To have "It", the fortunate possessor must have that strange magnetism which attracts both sexes. He or she must be entirely unselfconscious and full of self-confidence, indifferent to the effect he or she is producing, and uninfluenced by others. There must be physical attraction, but beauty is unnecessary.

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.

Turn and face the strange.

When things aren't going well, situations like that happen. Every year, a team will go through something like that. Eventually, we're going to be making the plays, we're going to win the close games and everything's going to turn around. It's a strange game, but it works out like that.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

Let us be very strange and well-bred: Let us be as strange as if we had been married a great while; and as well-bred as if we were not married at all.

Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new writing projects. In a strange way, choosing certain songs is part of the process of plotting the book out. I pick songs that I think with resonate with characters, their personality quirks, relationship dynamics, action scenes, and so on.

Lewis is really desperate, and I'm really sorry for the families being put through this. This is going to be a strange Christmas party this year.

Love, we are in God's hand. / How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead. / So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!

Last year, we were really on the short side, aside from Rathert and Rachel. But it all comes down to how hard you play. Volleyball is kind of a strange sport that way.

Many residents who had noticed strange activity from that house only stepped forward after the raid. If they had come out earlier, we could have acted faster.

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children; / Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

So it all happened, almost by accident. But at the same time, and this is the strange part of it, I'd never performed.

Similar things apply when you are going to warm climates. In Los Angeles, where the sun is bright, some suit fabrics which look gray in London take on a strange greenish tint (in Los Angeles).

Since the time of Richard Nixon, there has been a strange lack of will in the media to identify the real cause for Americans' anger at politicians who fall, publicly and spectacularly.

Mother Nature plays strange tricks in strange ways, but the Outer Banks has been spared a direct hit.

Meditation simply means to pay attention: it has nothing to do with standing on your head in a corner making strange noises in foreign tongues.

My first book is really comparable to what I do now, where it's pretty surreal and strange at moments, but that being my first book - I wrote that when I was 22; it came out when I was 24 - and it was just really overwritten. I just didn't trust myself as a writer to say something once.

One strange thing about the rain? It reveals all of the leaks.

One strange quality of writing about political campaigns is that it's a little like writing about a baseball game inning by inning. We presume we can say something about the final result from the state of play a third of the way through. You can when a game is a colossal blowout, but you can't when it's close.

One of the strange things that happens when you publish a book is that you begin ... to see what resonances it has for the readers, ... Sometimes you begin to understand your book a bit more.

One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sunwhich has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...

Of course it's always a little bit strange playing a guy who you just played with in the Davis Cup -- we won together an Olympic medal, and played last year's Davis Cup. But when you are professionals you know in this type of game and this level we can meet all the time.

No one has spoken to Andy and that begs a question about communication. I found it strange that you reduce the squad from 60 to 30 and do not phone people who are not in it and tell them why. If we did something like that to people we would be accused of mismanagement.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

Now we'd have to win out (to make playoffs) and there would have to be some strange stuff happen for us realistically having mathematical possibilities.

Obviously, now with this information, we hope that there will be an immediate upgrading of the facilities or at least a quality approval of this product and greater availability. It's a little strange that such a valuable drug is so difficult to get.

No doubt that portends an upcoming price reduction or processor enhancement for the original model, but it does seem strange right now.

No doubt, it's nice to be able to come back with a guy like Casey. It was a very strange game for us hitting-wise. We hit the ball well, especially in the early innings. But you've got to hit it with guys in scoring position.

Pluto is so unlike any planet we've ever visited. It's this strange little duck, sitting out there, this mixture of rock and ice but with an atmosphere. There is so much to learn about this planet.

Politics makes strange bedfellows. I can see most of the Sunnis voting against this (charter), plus the followers of Muqtada al-Sadr, plus moderate-minded, secular-minded Shia and even some Kurds.

Only this way the human life will escape its own burden, its own image, its own Destiny, the vanity, the deceit and the absurd, the strange coldness of this world, finally choosing the complete peace of the Nirvana it was looking throughout its historical evolution, a strange and absurd Nirvana itself in reference to the increasingly humble and insignificant being compared to it, to the stranger that replaces more often self and more inhumanly, that mocks her creating it a society increasingly petty and absurd. Is suicide the saving solution of the mankind? Is it not any other way through which man would chase away the alien within him, the absurd and the anxiety so that he can find his Sacred Self that was stolen so many millennia ago? What other way could there be except suicide?

I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle.

I wouldn't go up to a strange car that I don't know.

I would find it strange that any worker who defends the working class could defend someone who is being question over his honesty and where there exists evidence of corruption.

I would have given you a strange look.

I grew up in a small town in Washington State, so I wasn't really aware of costume design as a career growing up, but I loved clothes. I remember I saved all my money, and the first thing that I bought was a white blazer, which was to the horror to my parents. But I have always had a strange connection with clothing.

If they give this bad guy some very important ministries, there is no telling what he will do. It is a very strange situation.

If this is our strange way of ending or discrediting a program that is crucial to us, it is really silly.

I have discovered that most ofthe beauties of travel are due tothe strange hours we keep to see them. . . .

I have discovered that most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them. . . .

I didn't notice Strahan was gone. But I thought it was strange that when I went around the right side, there was nobody there to seal the end off.

I believe there are enough grounds to think they might turn out to be true. I don't know, but there are definitely so many things, so many strange coincidences, so many things have happened that shouldn't have happened that there are enough grounds to believe that something is wrong here. Very, very wrong.

I am so pleased to be joining Arsenal, a club I have admired for a long time. Coming to Arsenal will give me the opportunity to work with world-class players every day and play football at the highest possible level. It is a strange day because I am also very sad to be moving from Southampton. I am leaving many friends and some great coaches who have been so important to my career so far, but I leave with many great memories from the club. I am now really looking forward to meeting my new team-mates and working hard as an Arsenal player.

But strange things do happen in tennis and today's match was one of them.

Imagination must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

I'm always interested to see how he's doing, and in a strange way I kind of root for him, too.

I love all forms of music. I even like music I dislike, because the music you dislike is like going to a strange country, and it forces you to rethink everything and to appreciate its particular joys.

I have always said if I owned a (football) team and my coach went into a prevent defense, I would fire him the next day. But when you have a seven-stroke lead, it's hard not to. I would not say I went into a total prevent defense because I was hitting some good shots, but I wasn't shooting at pins. It really is a strange mindset.

I have a strange feeling back here, ... I can't explain it. It's a strange mixture of the tragedies and the good things that happened here.

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.