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Quotes About Strange

We listen to the inexhaustible chant of the sea within us, as it rises and falls in our heads, like the approach and retreat of the strange desire we have for heaven, for love, and all that we cannot touch with our hands.
~ Jean-Michel Maulpoix
The strange word nymphomation, used to denote a complex mathematical procedure where numbers, rather than being added together or multiplied or whatever, were actually allowed to breed with each other to produce new numbers.
~ Jeff Noon
Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There shall be a fire that knows your name, and in the presence of the strangling fruit, its dark flame shall acquire every part of you. *
~ Jeff Vandermeer
A falcon screamed down from above and speared one of the two, and peeled off to rise again before the survivor had time to evade or mourn the loss, as if there had always been one and not two. As if there had always only ever been one Strange Bird. But from above, even dying, the companion defiant, urging the last on, and blessing the bird that had caught her, for it was only acting as to its nature and there was no cruelty in that.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Now, Norman was used to all kinds of strange, but this was something he had never experienced before. As he stood staring at the script, the paper turned yellow and parchmentlike
~ Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
People have a strange trust in their devils, indeed.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Don't take this the wrong way, but you seem like the strangest stranger I've ever met.
~ Elizabeth Knox
I wondered if a novel could have the power to make something so strange happen in actuality.
~ Elizabeth Kostova
It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread, As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Last night," he said, reminiscently, "you bound my arm—the merest scratch! with all the tenderness of which a woman is capable when her compassion is aroused. Today, you propose to shoot me in cold blood for no better reason than that I will not gratify your curiosity! It has been truly said that females are strange creatures!
~ Alice Chetwynd Ley
of the heart saying strange strange it's not as if such fastenings could ever contain the regular yearning wing-beat of my evenings
~ Alice Oswald
La Historia inmortal hace cosas raras cuando se cruza con el amor de los cuerpos mortales
~ Almudena Grandes
It was really strange to see all these apes standing around eating popcorn, smoking, wearing sunglasses.
~ Estella Warren
Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
~ Samuel Pepys
I like wee arguments, I've never been into jokes. I'm more into strange things and madness and things escalating and things not really making sense.
~ Limmy
When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
~ Omar Ahmad
Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.
~ Tom Ellis
I'm a little bit of a creep.
~ Cailee Spaeny
Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where I'm like, 'I wonder if I can convince people who know what they're doing to hear me out on one of my ideas.'
~ Thomas Middleditch
The Cube was a wonder - a wonder for itself and a wonder for myself. To me, it was much more strange than to anybody else.
~ Erno Rubik
Mick Jagger was a lightning bolt of strange talent sent from above.
~ Ryan Eggold
For me, it's my work - I have a job, and that job happens to be with insanely talented actors. At this stage, it's normal to me. But when I meet new people, I realise, 'Oh, yeah, it's actually really strange. I have a very unique hobby.'
~ Angourie Rice