Quotes About Strange

Sailors are the only class of men who now-a-days see anything like stirring adventure; and many things which to fire-side people appear strange and romantic, to them seem as common-place as a jacket out at elbows.

The shock of encountering an ancient author speaking in largely recognizable language can make him seem more strange, and newly strange. I would like to invite readers to experience a sense of connection to this ancient text, while also recognizing its vast distance from our own place and time. Homer is, and is not, our contemporary.

The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange.

Vehicle… vehicle… vehicle—a very strange looking word, if you stare at it for eight or nine minutes… "Skulking" is another interesting-looking word. And so much for that.

A typical load, decided Bond, while admitting that if two of their number, himself and Tiffany Case, had their secrets, there was no reason why many of these dull people should not also be bound on strange missions.

Your sword is made out of your grandmother's bones?" "Okay, I see how it sounds weird when you say it in that tone of voice

Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

Young men are crazy strange emotional beings.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the rest of the time. I was sent away to this public school in the middle of nowhere, and I think we managed to completely miss out on normal youth culture.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan of sci-fi. I love being taken into a strange world, and when it's told with imagination and credibility, I love being taken on that trip. I always have.

Lifting a major trophy in front of an empty stadium would be a very strange feeling. But then you'd rather do that than not play at all.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

The movie truism is that stars play themselves, while actors play other people - troubled or toxic, and memorably strange. By that definition, Philip Seymour Hoffman, who disappeared into the rabbit hole of his characters' souls, was our generation's anti-star and the chameleonic film actor of his age.

Los Angeles is a really strange place. I grew up there like a normal kid, but it was not until I experienced other parts of the world that I realized how really and truly bizarre to the core it is - inside the homes of the powerful and damaged.

I spoke to a UFO researcher about an experience that I had. It was very strange and trust me, you don't want to hear about it.

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

The hillside before them blurred, as if a curtain of wind-blown sand rose before it. A churning wind roiled through this strange mist.

The castellan is bundled like a corpse and you don't find that somewhat unusual?' 'Could be afraid of the sun or something. No reason to be suspicious. You never met any strange people in your day, Tor?' And Torvald Nom glanced across at Scorch, and found he had no reply to that at all.

All breaks in the narrative of living had more to do with the limits of what could be sustained at any one time, the reach of temporary exhaustion. Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

It was a good apple too. A good apple, picked by a madman on a full moon night.