Strange Things Quotes - Page 8

• Being in love is a very strange thing.

  Pittacus Lore

  Being In Love, Love Is, Strange

  Pittacus Lore (2011). “The Power of Six: Lorien Legacies”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

  Marisa Silver

  Attention, Strange, Folktales

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Money is the driving force of Hand to Mouth, the lack of money, and all those true stories about strange things in The Red Notebook, coincidences and unlikely events, surprise, the unexpected.

  Paul Auster

  Notebook, Hands, Events

  Interview with Nathalie Cochoy and Sophie Vallas, transatlantica.revues.org. March 2014.

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• I just got asked by another journalist 'Are you a feminist?' and I was just like... Is there a strange thing at the moment where you have to come out as a feminist? I've been asked if I'm a feminist so many times recently, and I'm just like 'Yes, yes, for God's sake, yes! Is there something that I give off that says I'm not?'

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Giving, Feminist, Sake

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• Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Looks, Strange

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

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• The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

  Patrick Macnee

  Character, Romance, Strange

  "The Avengers: The Inside Story". Book by Patrick Macnee and ‎Dave Rogers, 2008.

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• I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the point that, for the most part, we manage not to see it. That's why I love coffee shops and public places - I mean, they're all out there.

  David Lynch

  Coffee, Creativity, Mean

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• You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Trying, Quality

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?

  Herman Melville

  Strange, Habit, Advocating

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.267

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• Souls and memories can do strange things during trance.

  Bram Stoker

  Memories, Soul, Strange

  Christopher David, Bram Stoker (2016). “Dracula Scholar's Annotated Edition.”, p.240, Christopher David

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• As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

  Paul Auster

  Boys, Littles, Strange

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan

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• Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

  Raymond Chandler

  Inspiration, Strange

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.36, Vintage

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• One of those strange things that happens in movies is that you need someone to actually say people's names, or else you have no idea who those kids are. This was a way for her to introduce who the important boys were in the story, but then it just was so funny that it became a centerpiece to it. When you look at the character design that Tim did for Weird Girl, and what Catherine [O'Hara] did with the voice, and it's gonna kill.

  John August

  Girl, Character, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a strange thing, to be talked about instead of talked to.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Strange

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• Compared with now when almost everyone knows what graphic design is and has some sort of access to the tools to make it, back then, it was really esoteric, you had to quantify it as being 'like commercial art', as one still does in certain circles. It was a strange thing to want to do for a living.

  Michael Bierut

  Art, Circles, Design

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• To see life. To see the world. To watch the faces of the poor, and the gestures of the proud. To see strange things. Machines, armies, multitudes, and shadows in the jungle. To see, and to take pleasure in seeing. To see and be instructed. To see and be amazed. (Describing the powers of photography; written for the launch of LIFE Magazine, 1936.)

  Henry R. Luce

  Photography, Army, Shadow

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• A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thing is that it's the first time that David Lee Roth has had any publicity in ten years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, Years, Rocks

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• We create our own reality because of our inner emotional - our subconscious - reality draws us into those situations from which we learn. We experience it as strange things happening to us (and) we meet the people in our lives that we need to learn from. And so we create these circumstances at a very deep metaphysical and subconscious level.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Reality, Emotional, People

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• Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

  William Beebe

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Rocks

  William Beebe (1921). “Edge of the Jungle”

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• It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.

  Eric Hoffer

  Movement, Strange, Should

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  Kay Ryan

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.

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• I know we loved each other, but distance can do strange things to people and before I was willing to tell you about it, I wanted to be certain that it would last

  Nicholas Sparks

  Distance, People, Lasts

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “Nights In Rodanthe”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• Being in love is a very strange thing. Your thoughts constantly drift towards this other person, no matter what you're doing.

  Pittacus Lore

  Being In Love, Love Is, Matter

  "The Power of Six (The Lorien Legacies, Book 2)". Book by Pittacus Lore (James Frey and Jobie Hughes), August 23, 2011.

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• When we first got married, we made a pact. It was this: In our life together, it was decided I would make all of the big decisions and my wife would make all of the little decisions. For fifty years, we have held true to that agreement. I believe that is the reason for the success in our marriage. However, the strange thing is that in fifty years, there hasn’t been one big decision.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Agreement, Years

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