Strange Things Quotes - Page 5

• A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

  Steve Wozniak

  People, Hacking, Strange

  Saturday keynote speech, The Fifth HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) Conference, July 10, 2004.

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• What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.

  Kobayashi Issa

  Spring, Alive, Strange

  Kobayashi Issa, “What A Strange Thing”

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• It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Parent, Strange

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Drinking, Food, Wine

  Friedrich Schiller (1861). “Complete works. Ed. with careful rev. and new tr., by C.J. Hempel”, p.529

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• Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

  Michelle Williams

  Missing Someone, Grief, Moving

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• There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

  Truman Capote

  Real, Strange, Kind

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.107, Vintage

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• Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.

  Carnie Wilson

  Becoming, Strange, Becoming Famous

  PARADE Readers Chat With Wilson Phillips, parade.com. April 23, 2012.

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• It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.

  J. K. Rowling

  Time, Giving, Potters

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• Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

  Bram Stoker

  Thinking, Mad, Laughing

  Bram Stoker (1904). “Dracula”, p.166, Hayes Barton Press

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• Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean, Helping, Strange

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “The Garden of Eden”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

  Gemma Arterton

  Eclectic Style, Strange, Intriguing

  "Gemma Arterton: Damsel No More". Interview with Gillian Mohney, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2010.

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• The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

  Lori Lansens

  Thinking, Strange

  Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.119, Hachette UK

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• The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a strange thing if you had never seen a lock. Your soul has a curious shape because it is a hollow made to fit a particular swelling in the infinite contours of the divine substance, or a key to unlock one of the doors in the house with many mansions. Your place in heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it -- made for it stitch by stitch as a glove is made for a hand.

  C. S. Lewis

  Keys, Doors, Hands

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• You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.

  Douglas Coupland

  Order, Wings, Needs

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.168, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.

  Suzanne Collins

  Tree, Midnight, Rope

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• The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

  Paul McCartney

  Strange, Publishing

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• Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

  Tom Clancy

  Fleeting, Strange, Lost

  Tom Clancy (2001). “The Bear and the Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

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• Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle.

  Heinrich Heine

  Miracle, Strange, Music Is

  Letters on the French Stage, 1837.

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• A stranger here Strange things doth meet, strange glories see; Strange treasures lodged in this fair world appear, Strange all, and new to me. But that they mine should be, who nothing was, That strangest is of all, yet brought to pass.

  Thomas Traherne

  Religion, Gardening, World

  The Salutation (published 1903).

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• To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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• This usually happens in the white-collar classes: These people take to worshipping pointlessness. Examples are Twin Peaks, Christo's artwork, and academic liberal politics. But a strange thing happens; these people view their ultra pointlessness as a way of being like God.

  Noah Cicero

  Views, Class, White

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• Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there.

  Ann Brashares

  Moving, Character, Strange

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• But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mean, Hollywood Films, Judging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Conducting is a strange thing to teach.

  Joshua Bell

  Strange, Conducting, Teach

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• To us, men of the West, a very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

  Simone Weil

  Science, Men, Names

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