Strange Quotes

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that. Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange.

Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

The mind of the performer is a very strange thing.

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.

For me, I've never talked about my private life. It's always been about Black Sabbath. It's strange to open up and talk about me as a young lad, my relationships, marriages and what not.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.

Shows are really strange. Sometimes you really don't know what to expect.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

Fame is a very strange animal.

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

I feel weird without lipstick. Even after the first time I wore a really neon pink or a really bright red, I felt really strange without it there. My lips are a main feature, so I feel naked without them.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

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

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility.

It is strange how one feels drawn forward without knowing at first where one is going.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.

We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed.

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.

Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published many books still needs encouragement, but this is true.

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.

It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

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.