Quotes About Strange

That's odd." ?Garland clicked his tongue.

What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his teeth.

He was reading the strange account of the two missionaries who have lately made such a figure in the newspapers. I suppose the whole account is just such another gross imposition upon the public as the man's gathering the people together to see him go into the quart bottle. "Men seven hundred years old!" And why not seven yards high? He that can believe it, let him believe it.

He was our enemy, but as it is strange, after so many years the death of an old enemy is like the death of an old friend.

It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

I hated and loved him in turns, as witches will do, for our hearts are strange and inexplicable.

A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.

The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!

Life is so strange I don't know why But somebody, somebody has to cry.

How, then, are we to class this strange amalgam of criticism and credulity? What purpose can it serve? To whom will it appeal? Whose beliefs will it alter even by a hair's breadth?

And hereof it cometh to pass, that we do the rather condemn many points of Popery, and that they have of late days broached and taught us sundry very strange and dangerous opinions ; which, as they are not to be found in Scripture, so are they repugnant as well to the Fathers as to all the aforesaid General Councils.

I've squandered smiles today, And, strange to say, Altho' my frowns with care I've stowed away, Tonight I'm poorer far in frowns than at the start; While in my heart, Wherein my treasures best I store, I find my smiles increased by several score.

First day of the new life. Very strange. Feeling almost skittish all day. Exhausted now yet feverish also, like a child at the end of a party. Like a child, yes: as if I had suffered a grotesque form of rebirth.

How wonderful of [Jesus] to come back undercover, so that even the people who knew him best had to look, then look again, before they got the crawly feeling that they had seen him somewhere before. It was the perfect setup for people who wanted to know what made him different from anyone else they had met: his ability to reflect their humanity back to them, both familiar and strange, so that they never got tired of searching each other's faces for some sign of him.

Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

They looked like the people you see on the six o'clock news—refugees, sent to wait in some strange ugly place, with all their boxes and sacks around them. It suddenly occurred to me that this was just the way it must have been for the real Holy Family, stuck away in a barn by people who didn't much care what happened to them. They couldn't have been very neat and tidy either, but more like this Mary and Joseph

Women," she said, "need to tell stories about what happens to them. That's how we get it to make sense." "Interesting. What do men do?" "Have heart attacks, and sex with strange women.

There is a crevice in Love's garden wall Where mandrakes thrive, with lilies rank and tall; Where stealthy Death peers through a purple veil In madmen's eyes, and strange worms crawl and crawl.

The world is really wild at heart and weird on top.

It is difficult to keep the public interested. The public demands new wonders piled on new wonders. Often we don't know where our next marvel is coming from. The supply of strange ideas is not endless.

For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.

I don't think quantitative easing is deliberately misleading, but I do think it's suspiciously bland and reassuring. It doesn't sound like anything big, experimental, scary and strange - which is what many economists think it is.

Recently, I dreamed that I returned home to find my wife had married Ray Winstone. They were kind and let me stay, but the whole thing was awkward.

I did get recognised a few times in Letterkenny which is still very strange to me.