Stranger Quotes

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

Never floss with a stranger.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical.

What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.

I don't have a problem with conflict. I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.