Strange Quotes - Page 34

• What a long strange trip it's been.

  Jerry Garcia

  Expression, Long

  Wendy Weir, Jerry Garcia (Spirit) (1999). “In the Spirit: Conversations with the Spirit of Jerry Garcia”, Harmony

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• If indeed it's a race Then the chicks do the most It isn't a brag Or an estrogen boast It's the women who've led me With big open hearts If not for their love I'd have failed at the start. And it's not just the mothers I speak of them ALL It's a woman there first When somebody falls. The multi of tasking That's easy to tease I dare a great man To try it all, PLEASE! So this is my shout out My rallying cry To women all over I hold you up high And though there are others Who'll think this poem strange It's the women who plant The root of big change.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mother, Fall, Heart

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• The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun.

  Aeschylus

  Moving, Light, Golden

  Aeschylus, Sophocles (2010). “Nine Greek Dramas by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes”, p.16, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

  Susanna Clarke

  House, Might, Facts

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.518, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

  Susanna Clarke

  Yorkshire, Dutch, Native

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.698, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Husband, Things I Love, Flesh

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name.

  Leonora Carrington

  Believe, Air, Names

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• She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted." Archer received this strange communication in silence. His eyes remained unseeingly fixed on the thronged sunlit square below the window. At length he said in a low voice: "She never asked me.

  Edith Wharton

  Communication, Archer, Eye

  Edith Wharton (2012). “The Age of Innocence”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moving, Mind, Legs

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.571, Wordsworth Editions

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• it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Chaos, Leap

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “The Waves”, p.235, Collector's Library

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• “Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?”

  Alexandra Ivy

  Imagination, Tables, Lessons

  "When Darkness Comes".

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• Almost everything strange washes up near Miami.

  Rick Riordan

  Miami, Sea Of Monsters, Grover Underwood

  "The Sea of Monsters". Book by Rick Riordan, April 1, 2006.

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• It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening people into thinking of their own mortality.

  Susanna Clarke

  Thinking, Clothes, People

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.681, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Perhaps it's rude to notice when a wizard does something strange.

  Donita K. Paul

  Rude, Doe, Wizards

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.200, WaterBrook

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• We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes...

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Dream, Sweet, Home

  "The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1993.

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• What she said was always strange. It had happened long ago. It seemed insignificant. And yet it was something you remembered forever. The words as well as the story. The voice as much as the words.

  Marguerite Duras

  Long Ago, Voice, Forever

  Marguerite Duras, Duras (1993). “Summer Rain”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Imagination, Function, Strange Things

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• She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Darkness, Forests

  "Wyrd Sisters". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1988.

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• But it's strange, when you've always been told something is true, like the moon will come back. You need proof. And while you wait, you feel the entire balance of your world just tipping. It's crazy. But when it's over, and it does come back, that's the best, because it's all you want, everything narrows to just that. It's this great rush, like for that one second everything's okay with the world again. It's amazing.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Crazy, Moon

  "Keeping the Moon". Book by Sarah Dessen, 1999.

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• When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

  James Joyce

  Long, Gone, Pages

  James Joyce (2013). “Four Novels by James Joyce”, p.73, eBookIt.com

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

  Ernest Hemingway

  Mean, Helping, Strange Things

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

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• Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

  Dodie Smith

  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.83, St. Martin's Press

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• Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We even talk about people being 'down to earth' or having their feet firmly planted on the ground. But suddenly one day we see that it isn't true. The earth, the boulders, that are supposed to be solid, all of a sudden turn as mushy as liquid - From the short story "Thailand

  Haruki Murakami

  Mysterious Things, Earthquakes, Feet

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 02, 2015

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• It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Regret, Passion

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• Memory is a strange Bell—Jubilee, and Knell.

  Emily Dickinson

  Memories, Jubilee, Bells

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.755, Harvard University Press

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