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Quotes About Strange

He went on, hurting her, torturing her. And then a very strange thing happened. Very strange. So strange she didn't understand it at first. So strange she couldn't think about it, couldn't even realize what it was. All she could do was react. The fire in her breasts and loins turned from pain to pleasure. The ache that dominated her entire being became an ache that craved immediate satisfaction. She didn't want to escape, not any more.
~ Lawrence Block
A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.
~ John Dee
The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar energy.
~ William Beveridge
The only truly alien planet is Earth.
~ J. G. Ballard
The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic." From Tribe of the Teddy Bear
~ J. Joseph Wright
The red tongues that went licking up my heap of wood were an altogether new and strange thing to Weena.
~ H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.
~ Patience Strong
I know, " he says, and it's the strangest thing. I can tell he's smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.
~ Charlotte Stein, Power Play
Quem sabe? Talvez encontres a solução num sonho. Já aconteceram coisas mais estranhas.
~ Adam Fawer
Questo pianeta ha, o meglio aveva, un fondamentale problema: la maggior parte dei suoi abitanti erano infatti afflitti da una quasi costante infelicità. Per risolvere il problema di questa infelicità furono suggerite varie proposte, ma queste per lo più concernevano lo scambio continuo di pezzetti di carta verde, un fatto indubbiamente strano, visto che ad essere infelici non erano i pezzetti di carta verde, ma gli abitanti del pianeta.
~ Adams Douglas
The human psyche is a strange creation. We believe that the known is always preferable to the unknown, even if the known sucks.
~ Alan Cohen
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
~ Alan Moore
Isn't it strange how life turns into melodrama?
~ Alan Moore
Stranger things have happened. And do, with alarming regularity.
~ Derek Landy
If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction
~ Derrida Jacques
I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
~ Djuna Barnes
I have been loved," she said, "by something strange, and it has forgotten me.
~ Djuna Barnes
Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing
~ Dolly Parton
There were five children. In the late thirties my father built a house for us, something not too dissimilar to Miess Tugendhat house. It was wonderful to live in but strange to see on the Texas prairie. On Sundays people used to park their cars out on the street and stare. We had a routine, the family, on Sundays. We used to get up from Sunday dinner, if enough cars had parked, and run out in front of the house in a sort of chorus line, doing high kicks.
~ Donald Barthelme
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
~ Donald Barthelme
The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
~ Donald Barthelme
What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave.
~ Francis Marion
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.
~ Camille Claudel
Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.
~ Adam Riess