Strange Quotes - Page 10

• Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody. I have a very strange melodic gift: melodies come to me effortlessly. So I write melodies-thirty, forty, fifty-then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide. That happened one time with Jacques Demy for the duo of the twins [in Les demoiselles de Rochefort]: I went to his house in Noirmoutier to play 35 possible themes for him.

  Michel Legrand

  Writing, Thinking, Play

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• I would find it very strange to be on the road without my family. It's really second nature to me.

  Kasey Chambers

  My Family

  "A family affair for Kasey Chambers". Interview with Marnie Hunter, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2003.

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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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• We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Observers, Universe

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• Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them.

  Albert Einstein

  Fate, Men, Knowing

  "My Credo". Speech to the German League of Human Rights, Berlin (Autumn 1932); as published in "Einstein: A Life in Science" by Michael White and John Gribbin, 1994.

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• For in this strange anatomy we wear, the head has greater powers than the hand; the spirit, heart, and mind are over all.

  Ovid

  Heart, Hands, Mind

  Ovid (1960). “The Metamorphoses”, Signet

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• A great wine served in fine glassware is beautiful. But it is also seductive and full of strange promise and perhaps the slightest hint of naughtiness, all waiting to be uncoiled.

  Dave Chambers

  Beautiful, Wine, Seductive

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• Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

  Max Azria

  Nice, Shoes, Shopping

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• It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Long, Return, Quiet

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• How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Sick, Feelings, Horror

  Allen Ginsberg (2010). “Collected Poems 1947-1997”, p.74, Harper Collins

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• The Tea Baggers, they're not a movement, they're a cult.... Cults tend to populate from within, encouraging members to have huge broods of children and to give them strange names, like Moonbeam, and Trig.

  Bill Maher

  Children, Names, Giving

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• But at the same time, in reality, what a difference there is between the world today, and what it used to be! And with the passage of more time, some two or three hundred years, say, people will look back at our own times with horror, or with sneering laughter, because all of our present day life will appear so clumsy, and burdensome, extraordinarily inept and strange. Yes, certainly, what a life it will be then, what a life!

  Anton Chekhov

  Laughter, Reality, Years

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• The universe is a strange and wondrous place. The truth is quite odd enough to need no help from pseudoscientific charlatans.

  Richard Dawkins

  Needs, Helping, Odd

  "Human gullibility beyond belief, - the "paranormal" in the media". The Sunday Times, August 25, 1996.

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• California Marijuana farmers are worried that radiation from Japan could affect their crops. Or maybe for some strange reason they're just being paranoid.

  Conan O'Brien

  Marijuana, Japan, California

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• The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

  Helen Mirren

  Children, Land, People

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• Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Age, Use

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• North Korea is making several demands in exchange for giving up their nuclear program, including a promise from America not to attack them. Which is a little strange because for us to attack them we would have to have slam dunk proof that they have weapons of mass destruction. I mean, for Gods sakes people, we're not maniacs. It would have to be an air-tight case. We wouldn't just come in there and start bombing you.

  Jon Stewart

  Giving Up, Mean, Mass Destruction

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• I never met a man I didn't get a kind of strange and exciting tingling sensation from.

  Will Rogers

  Men, Kind, Mets

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• As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

  Harry Stack Sullivan

  Love You, Exception, Love Yourself

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• People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

  Gunter Grass

  Children, Thinking, Years

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• We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble.

  Douglas Adams

  Nice, Order, Strange Places

  Douglas Adams (2009). “Mostly Harmless”, p.100, Pan Macmillan

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• Iraq is a strange country. Where else can American civilians like me be protected by terrorist human shields?

  Michael Totten

  Country, Iraq, Shields

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• Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Campaigns, Life Is, Regions

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• God happens only when you have moved out of the way and left yourself totally empty, spacious. It is a very strange phenomenon: The guest only comes inside the house when the host disappears.

  Rajneesh

  House, Guests, Way

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• War is too strange to be processed alone.

  Phil Klay

  War

  "This Week In Short Fiction" by Jill Schepmann, therumpus.net. November 21, 2014.

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