Stranger Quotes - Page 13

With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

I have always done films with friends rather than strangers.

It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.

Or a way to stay on strangers couches, that just sounds terrible all around.

We know that people we love are both good and bad, but we expect strangers to be one or the other.

I'd like to come back to the West eventually. In the end abroad I am always a stranger, active politics in particular is not accessible to me and although people are generous, I can never be on the inside of a culture that relies a great deal on the private space and the family.

A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

If you don't talk to strangers, your life is so limited. If you're careful about what you eat, you'll never try anything adventurous.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.

Neighbours: the strangers who live next door.

It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger.

I do not like candy. I do not like knocking on strangers' doors. I do not like having to deal with the candy disaster that is Halloween. I resent it.

Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.

I'm addicted to the dynamics of relationships whether they be in love, work, between strangers on the streets, or in the world in general.

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.

If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

Maybe my work is somewhat divided into family stories, things I know intimately, and then everybody else in the world - the strangers who I am totally fascinated with.

I wasn't a stranger to hard times. I used to read the Bible - well, I still do, but when I was young I read the Bible quite a bit.

She smiles at him, too young to know him for a stranger, and too innocent yet to care.

With an age difference comes a great gap in cultural references, and so on. It's not all about race and gender. It interests me that, as you get older, your younger self becomes a stranger to you. A split occurs within yourself. But maybe we're all always strangers to ourselves.