Strange Quotes - Page 26

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

[Imagination] must be visited constantly, or else it begins to become restless and emit strange bellows at embarrassing moments; ignoring it only makes it grow larger and noisier.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.

So I think rather than being attracted so much now to working with my heroes, I'm sort of more attracted to working with completely unlikely strangers because it's more exciting really.

A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.

Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.

It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the abilities that are given us.

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.

It's a hard, lonely feeling, to be completely yourself in front of strangers.

We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.

I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

It wasn’t that strangers couldn’t hurt you. It was simply that the people you loved could do it so much better.

It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense.

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.

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

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.