Strange Things Quotes

• We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

  Jack Nance

  Strange, Advocating, Picks

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• Sleeping or waking, we hear not the airy footsteps of the strange things that almost happen.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Sleep, Entrepreneur, Waking

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1647, Delphi Classics

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• ... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

  Jane Austen

  May, Causes, Strange

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger abbey [followed by] Persuasion”, p.4

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• A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.

  Victor Hugo

  Darkness, Sun, Strange

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• The spirit of the place is a strange thing. Our mechanical age tries to override it. But it does not succeed. In the end the strange, sinister spirit of the place, so diverse and adverse in differing places, will smash our mechanical oneness into smithereens.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Oneness, Age

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Sea and Sardinia: Top Novelist Focus”, p.48, 谷月社

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• I have always felt a little homeless. It's a strange thing.

  Annie Lennox

  Littles, Strange, Homeless

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• Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Keys, Humanity, Three

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.182, Penguin

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• Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, May, Strange

  Samuel Johnson (1833). “The Life of Johnson: with Maxims and Observations: Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, Accurately Selected from the Works of Dr. Samuel Johnson, and Arranged in Alphabetical Order”, p.269

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• Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tyrants, Different Faces

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.80, Ravenio Books

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• You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.

  Victor Hugo

  Honesty, Strange, Speak

  Victor Hugo (2012). “Les Misérables”, p.260, Courier Corporation

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• And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight-- isn't that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you're less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn't it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you've experienced before?

  Jonathan Franzen

  Stronger, Events, Strange

  Jonathan Franzen (2001). “The Corrections: A Novel”, p.305, Macmillan

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• There's a strange thing goes on inside a bubble. It's hard to describe. People who are in it can't see outside of it, don't believe there is an outside.

  Lucy Prebble

  Believe, People, Goes On

  Lucy Prebble (2009). “Enron”, p.98, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

  John Steinbeck

  Beautiful, People, Forever

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.96, Hamilton Books

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• If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Writing, Men

  The Scarlet Letter "The Custom-House" (1850)

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• The strange thing about writing is that it's so easy to write a novel. It is really easy. But it's getting there to the point where it's easy that's hard. The hard part is to get there.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Writing, Strange, Easy

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgaard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog.
  ‘What does electricity taste like?’ I ask.
  ‘Like a planet around a star,’ Bina48 replies.
  Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I’m not sure which

  Jon Ronson

  Dog, Stars, Profound

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• What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

  John L'Heureux

  Animal, Sound, Strange

  John L'Heureux (2002). “An Honorable Profession”, p.17, Grove Press

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between spirit and matter.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Matter, Spirit

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• If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.

  J. C. Ryle

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

  "Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark".

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• It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.

  Madeleine Roux

  Monday, Book, Voice

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• ... The 'cleverness' syndrome has taken the place of melody. It's like everyone has come down with this terrible disease in jazz....you are always expected to do your own material, which is a strange thing to do if you're a poor composer but a great player.

  Keith Jarrett

  Taken, Player, Musician

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• I want to do the right thing, but often I don't know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at task's undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hope, Morning, Ocean

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• Paris, on the other hand, looked exactly as it was supposed to look. It wore its heart on its sleeve, and the strange thing was that the heart it wore so openly was in other ways so closed-mysterious, uninviting.

  Adam Gopnik

  Heart, Hands, Paris

  Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated

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• I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

  Lars von Trier

  Men, Anxiety, Cameras

  "I'm a control freak - but I was not in control" by Geoffrey Macnab, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2006.

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• Physical beauty is such a strange thing.

  Jock Sturges

  Beauty, Strange, Physical Beauty

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.

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