Strange Quotes - Page 40

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

...[She] felt as if she were both a stranger to herself and more herself than she'd ever been.

I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

When I was ten, my pa told me never to talk to strangers. We haven't spoken since.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

And if I seem a little strange Well, that's because I am

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

It's a very strange league, the Championship, because on any given match day, any team can beat any other team.

I've thought a lot about success, because it's very strange to me that I've been successful.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.

My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.

Strange world isn't it?

It's hard to make strangers care about the good things in your life.

There's a Welsh poet, R.S. Thomas. He was a very crotchety, strange man, but his poems are wonderful. He was nominated for the Nobel in the 1990s but never won.

And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.

Confidences are always risky: a secret entrusted to a stranger make him less of one. You've given away something of yourself, given him the advantage.

Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.

It's strange - some directors are really talented but they can be so precious when it comes to letting you be a part of it.

I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.

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

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over The Onion or Calvin and Hobbes. That was considered completely normal.