Stranger Quotes - Page 14

I feel like I've spent the last five years of my life on the road. It hasn't affected my songs but it's probably affected everything else about me. Obviously, the more you travel, the wilder the things that keep happening to you, the more likely it is you'll get complete strangers knocking on your hotel room door.

She was a stranger now, but she'd been a friend once, and that was enough for him.

I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

I'm a stranger," pointed out Bod. "You're not," she said, definitely. "You're a little boy." And then she said, "And you're my friend. So you can't be a stranger.

Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experienced the awkwardness of you being way too close for comfort, after that, it all gets easy.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

The only way to resonate at a level that persuades is to know who you are addressing. If it's true that the Audience is the hero, you need to spend time thinking about them. Really getting to know them to the point it feels like they are a friend. May times we picture our audience as a large clump of strangers. Instead, you need to picture them as individuals standing in line to have a personal conversation with you. It's easy to persuade a friend, you need to think about your audience until you know them as a friend.

Strangers are family you haven't recognize yet

History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence.

To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

It is what a man does for strangers that counts more than what he does for his family.

Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.

We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

The man in the street is always a stranger.

Normally I object to strangers beaming force fields into my brain.

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.

I am a stranger to half measures.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.