Stephen Rodrick Quotes
A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.Stephen Rodrick
Quotes to Explore
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
Walt Whitman -
Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
Tamra Davis -
There's nothing people like better than being asked an easy question. For some reason, we're flattered when a stranger asks us where Maple Street is in our hometown and we can tell him.
Andy Rooney -
I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.
S. M. Stirling -
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
J. C. Ryle -
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.
Quentin S. Crisp
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With my old man I got no respect. He told me never take candy from a stranger unless he offered me a ride.
Jack Roy -
Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?
Fannie Hurst -
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?
Jim Gaffigan -
The whole idea of comedy, there is nothing normal about going up on stage to make strangers laugh. But I'm also not an exhibitionist like other comics. I'm not up there talking about masturbating.
Jim Gaffigan -
The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.
George Clooney -
Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
Virginia Woolf
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Who was I? The stranger was footsteps in the snow a long time ago.
William S. Burroughs -
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.
William Shakespeare -
An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.
Jane Austen -
No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama -
Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.
Sarah Dessen -
Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.
Sarah Silverman
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You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.
Seth Godin -
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
H. L. Mencken -
Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.
Stella Benson -
I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.
Alejandra Pizarnik -
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.
Stella Benson -
A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.
Stephen Rodrick