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Quotes About Strange

I have no 'dream role.' It just comes to me; it's very intuitive, and I say, 'OK, I have to do this now.' It's not logical; just, 'I have to jump into this very strange character,' or something like that. I can't even explain it.
~ Sebastian Koch
It's quite strange, because off the field I'm quite shy, quiet, prefer to watch a bit of TV at home, but get me on the cricket field I like it all kicking off.
~ Stuart Broad
They were short and squat and had too many limbs, and he had no idea what either of them were. But they looked suspicious.
~ Karen Chance
The whole time, I waited for Barrons to come and rescue me, the product, I suppose, of growing up in a world where nearly all the fairy tales I'd heard as a child had a prince rushing to the rescue of the princess. Men down south love to play up to that image. It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Well, you look weird. New pajamas? Did somebody exhume you last night?" -- Kiwi, Swamplandia!
~ Karen Russell
There were strange noises in the room, great bellowing sobs that did not sound like anything human. They bounced off the wals, echoing in her ears. Stop! she wanted to cry at the person who was making the noise. Then she realised that it was her.
~ Kate Williams
There are parts of Texas where a fly lives ten thousand years and a man can't die soon enough. Time gets strange there from too much sky, too many miles from crack to crease in the flat surface of the land.
~ Katherine Dunn
Nolan has the strangest affect on people. You know, I think there's something very sad and little boy about him, but at the same time the way he goes about everything is so awkward and obnoxious. He can never say the right thing, you know? And I think if he just didn't try so hard and calmed down, people might actually like him a bit more!
~ Gabriel Mann
What a world. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
What a world, Sadie thought. People once made glass sculptures of decay, and they put these sculptures in museums. How strange and beautiful human beings are. And how fragile.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sadie the gamer found this scene sexist and strange.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The more you respect and focus on the singular and the strange, the more you become aware of the universal and infinite.
~ Gail Godwin
A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses
~ Gary D. Schmidt
Dr. Strange: 'That was--agh--smart of you, Logan.' Wolverine: 'Yeah? Which part?' Dr. Strange: 'You knew that severe physical trauma to the host body could--sss--cease a demonic possession.' Wolverine: 'Oh, uh, sure.' Spider-Man: 'He didn't know that. He stabbed you just to stab you.' Dr. Strange: 'Well, *argh* either way.
~ Brian Michael Bendis
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
~ Brian Wilson Aldiss
Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.
~ Brigham Young
Elisabeth "has always been strange and has followed only her whims and wishes, and now shyness and melancholia have been added. Who among gifted people who enjoy unlimited freedom is entirely normal? The Empress is, as we all are, the product of conditions." (Bavarian lady-in-waiting)
~ Brigitte Hamann
Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I wonder if any of these strange places are still inhabited. Maybe they are all dead, and still running on automatic. They are haunted castles in virtual sand.
~ Bruce Sterling
A pretty pickle, truly, thought I; abed here in a strange house in the broad day, with a cannibal and a tomahawk.
~ Herman Melville
But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened. And like circles on the water, which, as they grow fainter, expand; so his eyes seemed rounding and rounding, like the rings of Eternity.
~ Herman Melville
I started at a sound so strange, long-drawn, and musically wild and unearthly, that the ball of free will dropped from my hand and I stood gazing...
~ Herman Melville
Gentlemen, a strange fatality pervades the whole career of these events, as if verily mapped out before the world itself was charted.
~ Herman Melville
Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
~ Herman Melville