Strange Quotes

• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Love
  • Running
  • Strange

• More people thought I was strange because I was a teenage novelist, not because I was from Oklahoma. That's where I got the looks like I was from the zoo.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • People
  • Thought
  • Strange

• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgard
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Novel

• You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Relationship

• It seems strange. We're touring in a bubble, so we don't feel it.

  

  Jonny Buckland Coldplay
  • Strange
  • Touring
  • Bubble

• And a secret inward voice in my head was saying (in a strange breathy voice...) Yes, yessss, I will pop round to The Blind Pig. I will 'pop' round because guess who lives at the Blind Pig? It is not a blind pig, it is Alex.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Secret
  • Blind
  • Pigs

• The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Strange
  • Publishing
  • Strange Things

• Strange priests are they who never straightly walk But all aslant through sideways passage stalk Who never seek their goals in forward lines But move askew as fraught with sly designs

  

  Willard Fiske
  • Moving
  • Design
  • Passages

• I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Kind
  • Sister
  • Quiet

• “You’re Regina Luporum,” Ned, Master of London, had said. “Of course strange things are happening to you.”

  

  Carrie Vaughn
  • Strange
  • Happening
  • Regina Luporum

• One of the key pieces is a great pair of shoes. Women say they always look at a man’s shoes, which is really strange! But it can ruin an outfit. Accessories are hugely important.

  

  David Gandy
  • Women
  • Pieces
  • Accessories

• Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we met we had had the same dreams. We compared notes. We found strange affinities. The same June of the same year (1919) a stray canary had fluttered into her house and mine, in two widely separated countries. Oh, Lolita, had you love me thus!

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long
  • Country
  • House

• 'The Strange Thing About the Johnsons' is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don't really see, ever.

  

  Milly Shapiro
  • Because
  • Through
  • Disturbing

• I feel like, these days there's so much music and so many bands, that it's exciting to hear when people go through the whole process with their own sort of system of making the music. It gives it a much more personal individual feel, like unique feel, when somebody has a really idiosyncratic set-up, or they just have what might be considered strange ways of going about the process that yields results that are not just cookie-cutter sounds like everything else... and I think that can only be a positive thing.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Giving

• I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Strange
  • Africa
  • Italy

• I have a couple ideas that I'm banging on for a film. It's strange, you make a movie and, all of a sudden, your agents are calling you and saying, "Hey, I know these guys with some money who are looking to finance something." You're like, "Oh, god, now I've gotta come up with something really amazing."

  

  Scott Foley
  • Guy
  • Film
  • Couple

• Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Trying
  • Kind
  • Tears

• I was a big fan of a writer named Jack Vance, a science fiction writer. He always wrote about these guys who were either going down a river in a strange world or would be in this one land where people acted really strange, and he'd have these interactions with them that were strange - he'd usually get run out of town or something. Then he'd end up in the next town over where the rules were totally different. And I love this stuff.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I've come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

  

  Eric Clapton Blind Faith
  • Ideas
  • Sex
  • Sound

• People are obsessed. There's an incredibly large group of people that spend most of their time considering other people's lives. It's strange to me.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Time
  • Obsessed

• People who share a muddled, careless, or deceitful attitude towards gathering evidence often find themselves drawn to eachother's fantasies. If you believe one wrong or strange thing, you are more likely to believe another.

  

  Damian Thompson
  • Themselves
  • Attitudes
  • Careless

• The way of Jesus cannot be imposed or mapped — it requires an active participation in following Jesus as he leads us through sometimes strange and unfamiliar territory, in circumstances that become clear only in the hesitations and questionings, in the pauses and reflections where we engage in prayerful conversation with one another and with him.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Jesus
  • Conversation
  • Territory

• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Dream
  • Chaos
  • Streets

• I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Worst
  • Comic
  • Gloomy

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