Strange Quotes - Page 7

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

  Paul McCartney

  Publishing, Strange Things

  4 Copy quote

• I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Atheist, Blame, Nazi

  6 Copy quote

• Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

  Alia Shawkat

  Couple, Focus, Acting

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.

  Marion Cotillard

  Special, Actors, Shooting

  "Marion Cotillard, Queen of Scotland". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 4, 2015.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Film and television was so strange to me because I didn't grow up in the business, I didn't know anything about it.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Growing Up, Film And Television, Grows

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When you're an actor, you're very much exposed, but in a strange way you're totally protected behind a character, behind a script, behind a director.

  Mathieu Demy

  Character, Directors, Actors

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.

  Clark Gregg

  Voice, Years, People

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Years, Immigration, Might

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For us, time travel is synonymous for the belief in all the things that are not seen, and also for the most outlandish claim that you could possibly make. To say that you're a time traveler is weirder than saying you're an alien. It's really strange to sit down in a basement and be face-to-face with someone who claims to be a real time traveler. So, for us, it was about the nuts and bolts of what it would be like, if you were face-to-face with someone who claimed to be from the future.

  Zal Batmanglij

  Real, Nuts, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jeff always says, "In the cinema, everybody goes to sci-fi. Those are the biggest movies. But, in television, nobody wants to touch it with a barge pole." It's strange. I think it's because maybe there's a legacy of television shows that depicted sci-fi in a certain way that turns off a lot of viewers, so maybe there's a negative connotation.

  J.H. Wyman

  Thinking, Legacy, Negative

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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, Should, Mass

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer.

  Douglas Coupland

  Cancer, Years, Mirrors

  7 Copy quote

• Strange how when you're young you have no memories...Then one day you wake up and BOOM, memories overpower all else in your life, forever making the present moment seem sad and unable to compete with a glorious past that now has a life of its own.

  Douglas Coupland

  Memories, Past, Forever

  Douglas Coupland (1996). “Polaroids from the Dead”, Harpercollins

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dark, Knowing, Blue

  4 Copy quote

• My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

  Paul McCartney

  Mother, Age, Kind

  7 Copy quote

• Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.

  Charles Dickens

  Land, Doubt, Trying

  20 Copy quote

• This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Two, America

  12 Copy quote

• Thoughts rearrange, familiar now strange.

  Holly Golightly

  Familiar

  4 Copy quote

• 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”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Children, World, Genius

  6 Copy quote

• It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Rocks, Priorities, Hard

  Mercedes Lackey (2016). “The Last Herald-Mage Trilogy”, p.394, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• One strange feeling, which I remember clearly, was a powerful link with the slain, particularly those that had fallen within the past hour or two. There was so much death around that life seemed almost indecent. Some men's uniforms were soaked with gobs of blood. The ground was sodden with it. I killed, too.

  William Manchester

  Powerful, Past, Men

  7 Copy quote

• Strange with women when They find out you love men More than they Never let you kiss them On the mouth again.

  John Wieners

  Kissing, Men, Mouths

  John Wieners, Raymond Foye (1986). “Selected Poems, 1958-1984”, p.49, David R. Godine Publisher

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.

  John Irving

  Growing Up, Doors, Long

  4 Copy quote