Strange Quotes - Page 19

Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong.

The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.

The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

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.

Again, your challenge is not just to improve. It is to break the service paradigm in your industry or market so that customers aren't just satisfied, they're so shocked that they tell strangers on the street how good you are.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.

That's why God created marriage, so people wouldn't have to fight with strangers.

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!

How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

I never wanted to be the person that waited for a stranger to come to town - I wanted to be the stranger!

The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.

When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by the terror of such spectacles, imaginations will paint things entirely strange to those who have not witnessed them.

For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

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

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Humans were so stupid. They had something so precious, and they barely safeguarded it at all. They threw away their lives for money, for packets of powder, for a stranger's charming smile.

I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.