Stranger Quotes - Page 16

I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.

We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

I hate walking up to strangers.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Never floss a stranger.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

Don’t you, when strangers and friends come to call, straighten the cushions, kick the books under the bed and put away the letter you were writing? How many of us want any of us to see us as we really are? Isn’t the mirror hostile enough?

You don't want to be stopped. But it happens to everybody, like if you bump into an old friend or something. Luckily with an old friend, you can be like, "I'm having a diarrhea attack. Can I call you later?" And you can't really do that with a stranger.

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

Everybody starts out as strangers.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.