Strange Quotes
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We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
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The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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It was strange the way he loved her; a side long and almost casual love, as if loving her were simply a matter of course, too natural to mention.
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I asked nothing better of life. I still ask nothing better of life. Strange to say—for surely it is strange not to have increased one’s claims, during the passage from youth to maturity?—these very things, just sun on my face, the feel of spring round the corner, and nobody anywhere in sight except a dog, are still enough to fill me with utter happiness. How convenient. And how cheap.
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Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.
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Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel.
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The thing that's strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.
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In New York, no one really cares who the hell you are. It's strange to be in the public eye where people have a perception of who you are, when they have never even met you.
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In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society.
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You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
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I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
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It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.
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Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.
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exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.
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Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
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Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
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That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.
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Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
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The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.
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I don't teach writing classes anymore, and I'm really glad I don't, because I would feel very strange about telling people, 'Go out there and be a writer, and make a living from it.'
