Strangest Quotations

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing. It was the strangest thing. Her passing away ripped the solidity out of the world.

There's a certain aura when a superstar like Brad Pitt walks into a room - I've seen it myself - but it comes from everyone else going, 'Aaaahhh!!' That's what you have to deal with, people looking at you and whispering. That would be the strangest thing, feeling the change as you walk in a room and trying to ignore it. But I think I could cope!

Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

Mugabe had a very strange quality about him. He was dapper. He had the strangest skin - it looks very shiny, but it's not oily. It's stretched very finely over his flesh. His eyes have layers of cyan crystals in them. It was a quiet, dark moment when I took his picture.

Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen.

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

Due to the sweeping time frame and the voices moving back and forth, the outline for 'The Invention of Wings' was the strangest one I've ever done. I created six large, separate outlines, one for each part of the book, and hung them around my study.

One of the strangest features of string theory is that it requires more than the three spatial dimensions that we see directly in the world around us. That sounds like science fiction, but it is an indisputable outcome of the mathematics of string theory.

One of the strangest experiences one can have is to sleep on stage, as I once did in Sydney when I'd lost the key to my flat. I had to stay at night in a bed, which conveniently was on stage because my character Sandy Stone did his monologue from a bed. To wake up looking at a shadowy auditorium is a very peculiar feeling.

Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right.

Should we have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? Is it right to be watching strangers in a play in this strangest of theatres?

One of the strangest results of having your name on a book jacket is the proliferation of people who know one narrow aspect of your life and are suddenly surprised to learn there's more.

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!

I'd be painting sometimes, and get the strangest feeling I was being watched. I'd look up and see faces pressed against the window or door screens. Then, when I noticed them, the people would want to come in and talk to me. Got very upset, too, when I was too busy. One time I remember a man drove his car clear across our lawn and parked it right in the middle of the grass. It was wild.

I don't think about that game any more, but it remains one of the strangest matches in the history of football. It's difficult to explain what happened that evening.

He was the strangest little bird I'd ever seen. He had fluttered into the world of the studios and, could he not be swatted dead, I knew he would manage. I had total faith in him.

Her parents told me about (the attack) a few days later; it was the strangest thing. We kind of hope it was helping her out.

I think its definitely the strangest case of the day,

I went to a Grammy party the other night. I had all these British dudes coming up to me, just patting me on the back. ... It was one of the strangest experiences of my life.

I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope and community are uncool and not part of the mainstream culture.

That was one of the strangest games I've ever seen. How did we not win?

What did we do? We put our university in the middle of a single-family residential area. It's the strangest zoning I've ever seen.

It was the strangest feeling. It was like we were waiting for this, so when it came, we were so ready. We felt like we were supposed to be here.

The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And nobody ever saw the ball come down. So they gave him a home run. What else are you going to do? It was one of the strangest things I ever saw.

People come in and say, 'Thank you so much for opening. Thank you for not having us eat pizza,' ... It's the strangest thing.

That must have been one of the strangest minutes of all time ... that there was no attempt by Mr. A to remove himself from the vicinity of a naked man with an erect penis.

Your thoughts are the strangest place that you've ever been, ... Stranger even than Los Angeles/It's like a cinema where they never ask you to leave.

This is the curse of our age, that even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

This is the strangest start to a season I've ever had. It's been a really bizarre start. We haven't been able to field the same lineup for any length of time. In fact, we've had only three or four days with everybody together.

This is the strangest period that I can recall in my lifetime, because individuals that will encourage their own children even, to blow themselves to kingdom come to take our innocent men, women and children, is something that is unconscionable. These are like uncivilized animals.

It was probably the strangest thing that's ever happened in the world,

It's the strangest team I've ever been around. They're a different group. A leader would probably help. Most great teams have somebody that will step forward. We have a bunch of guys and not one particular guy to come forward and step in front if things get out of hand.

It's one of the strangest things I've ever been involved in.

It's one of the strangest games I've ever been in. We came out and played great for most of the game. But we have to keep our heads in it.

It's been the strangest thing I've ever seen. Let's hope we can stay with that trend and run off a few wins in a row here.

I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what lyrics might mean, and I'm like, 'You go! I never thought of that, but that works,' ... I think true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection - or, at best, skilled presenters.

It was probably one of the strangest seasons I've ever had. The statistics say I didn't struggle. But my standards are different than everybody else's. That has been the case for a long time.

I like to think that Mrs. Asher is a lot stranger mother than I am. I hope that that's true. She's one of the strangest characters I've ever played.

I honestly don't know. I think it hit my arm or something, maybe. I shielded my face because it was coming at my face. It hit me as I was falling, and then I looked up and it was in the net and I was ecstatic. That's probably the strangest goal I've ever scored.

You've got to have a little bit of craziness in you. The guys you see that are good?they're the strangest people I've ever seen.