Strange Quotes

• If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Thinking
  • Quality
  • Goodness

• If you could touch the alien sand and hear the cries of strange birds, and watch them wheel in another sky, would that satisfy you?

  

  William Hartnell
  • Strange
  • Watches
  • Wheels

• There's an aesthetic theme, which is cities at two o'clock in the morning. Not cities packed with people going out to clubs and dancing but desolate, empty streets. It's off-putting but there's a strange comfort to it as well, that desolate urban environment.

  

  Moby
  • People
  • Environment
  • Strange

• It was strange to see that no matter what color the clothing first appeared—and they were all hues, from earthy copper and garnet to the blue of sky and shadow—in different light all turned to some shade of green, as if there were a third plane to the cloth’s weaving beyond the warp and weft.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Plane

• When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Jobs

• What a strange life I lead- a kind of Cinderella-life-half glitter in crystal shoes, half mice and cinders! But it is a wonderful life all the same.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Kind
  • Wonderful
  • Glitter

• I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Different
  • Reality
  • Strange

• How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Change
  • Strange
  • Human Beings

• The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything.

  

  Walter Tevis
  • Things
  • Television
  • Strange

• Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Strange
  • Accepting
  • Odd

• The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind.

  

  Bret Anthony Johnston
  • Strange
  • Leave
  • Pieces

• Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Same
  • Changes
  • Strange

• All things are strange which are worth knowing.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Things
  • Strange
  • Worth

• Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Action
  • Moments
  • Speak

• To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Woman
  • Strange
  • Confusing

• Poverty has strange bedfellows.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Poverty
  • Strange
  • Bedfellows

• The strange thing, though, is that most people who write novels these days seem to be aware of only a fraction of its possibilities. Kundera goes on and on about this, and I never tire of reading him on the subject, because I agree very deeply with it.

  

  Teju Cole
  • People
  • Writing
  • Reading

• It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming someone else. The really great thing about laughing was that it made me forget about the strange and awful feeling in my legs. Even if it was only for a minute.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Forget
  • Laugh
  • Legs

• I was one of Them: the Strange Ones. The Funny People. The Odd Tribes of autograph collectors and photographers. The Ones who waited through long days and nights, who used other people's dreams for their lives.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Photographer

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