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Quotes About Strange

He had no bag, which was strange. But overall it was vaguely reassuring to have such a man on board, especially after he had proved himself civilized and not in any way threatening. Threatening behavior from a man that size would have been unseemly. Good manners from a man that size were charming.
~ Lee Child
Noi tutti siamo esiliati entro lo cornici di uno strano quadro. Chi sa questo, viva da grande, Gli altri sono insetti.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she
~ Lewis Carroll
Desearía no haber llorado tanto! —dijo Alicia, mientras nadaba, tratando de encontrar la salida—. ¡Mi castigo será ahogarme en mis propias lágrimas! ¡Una cosa muy extraña, por cierto! Pero todo ha sido muy extraño hoy.
~ Lewis Carroll
Wake up, Alice dear!'' Said her sister ''Why,what along sleep you've had!'' ''Oh, I've had such a curious dream!'' Said Alice. and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about ;
~ Lewis Carroll
would gather about her other little children, and make THEIR eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would
~ Lewis Carroll
Hey," the cabbie yelled. "How's about a tip?" "You bet-ski," Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf trailing behind her. "Don't kiss strange men in Penn Station.
~ Libba Bray
But isn't that strange and wonderful unpredictability part of humanity? Aren't all of our differences what already make us a great nation?
~ Libba Bray
Memphis—it's just a bird. Birds fly around, brother. It's what they do. It's not following you, and it's not a sign. Unless you really did give it candy and flowers, in which case you are one strange brother.
~ Libba Bray
Capítulo 13: onde sou hospitalizado, tenho um encontro com um anjo e outras coisas estranhas e irritantes.
~ Libba Bray
There's no such thing as hideously ordinary. If something is hideous, it's automatically extraordinary. In a hideous way.
~ Libba Bray
She's a bit...odd. You mean crazy, Ling said. I'd say eccentric. That's a nice way of saying crazy.
~ Libba Bray
Besides, I'm in the theater, darlin'. I meet an awful lot of strange people. It's an occupational hazard.
~ Libba Bray
By definition, his job as an enigmalogist meant he needed to keep an open mind about anything, no matter how strange; his resistance, even skepticism, about the possibility of a phenomenon like lycanthropy was something he couldn't explain.
~ Lincoln Child
you study phenomena beyond the bounds of regular science: investigate the strange and inexplicable, prove things most people would label occult or supernatural.
~ Lincoln Child
What is man? ... What a strange union of matter and mind! A machine for converting material into spiritual force.
~ Benjamin Peirce
We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
~ Mike Ditka
Another interesting way in which the mechanistic worldview is being transcended is through discoveries having to do with chaos theory. It seems that systems of various kinds often exist in a state of chaos or, as they say, "on the edge of chaos," and then suddenly and unpredictably there emerges something called a "strange attractor" that rearranges the chaos into some new order.
~ Albert Nolan
Nature at the middle distance is familiar - so familiar that we are deluded into believing that we really know what it is all about. See very close at hand, or at a great distance, or from an odd angle, it seems disquietingly strange, wonderful beyond all comprehension.
~ Aldous Huxley
Strange," mused the Director, as they turned away, "strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.
~ Aldous Huxley
Lo faceva nella luce di una felicità strana, che non aveva mai provato, e che pure, le parve, aveva portato con sé per anni, aspettandola. Le sembrò impossibile essere riuscita a fare altro, in tutto quel tempo, che custodirla e nasconderla.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Aš netgi negird?jau jos balso. O po valand?l?s. - Tai keista kan?ia. Švelniai. - Mirti iš ilgesio d?l kažko, ko jau niekad nepatirsi.
~ Alessandro Baricco
Il destino dà appuntamenti strani.
~ Alessandro Baricco
If the alliance fell apart, years of careful planning and difficult political negotiations with Russia's strange bedfellows would be wasted.
~ Alex Lukeman