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Quotes About Strange

that's why I came back to art, after the war—it's a license to be a bit strange, after all; I sometimes think people expect it, so the fact that I am different doesn't matter.
~ Jacqueline Winspear
the whole motion of the figure is torment. It seemed a very strange figure for such a young kid to do, or, at least, it seemed strange until you thought about it.
~ James Baldwin
Quelqu'un, dit Jacques, mon père ou le tien, aurait dû nous dire que peu de gens sont jamais morts d'amour. Mais combien ont péri, et continuent à périr à toute heure, et dans les endroits les plus étranges ! par manque d'amour.
~ James Baldwin
For shame! For shame! that I should be so abruptly, so hideosuly entangled with a boy; what was strange was that this was but one tiny aspect of the dreadful human tangle, occurring everywhere, without end, forever.
~ James Baldwin
Reading in a sound booth seems very strange. Everyone has a process they are comfortable with; this was uncomfortable for me.
~ Gore Verbinski
I'd like to think I have a strange affinity for the embarrassing. Not sure what that says about me. But I like the awkward, uncomfortable comedy.
~ Greg Mottola
I work in our living room, a strange room in a strange, topsy-turvy house. I work underneath this enormous bookshelf.
~ Nick Harkaway
BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.
~ Luther Strange
The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.
~ Marshall McLuhan
What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.
~ Joshua Oppenheimer
You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.
~ Warsan Shire
I wanted to do a show about a character that was an innocent, and so I focused on a sea sponge because it's a funny animal, a strange one.
~ Stephen Hillenburg
I happen to collect the weird stuff - photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.
~ Ransom Riggs
Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
~ Mike D
Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!
~ William Shakespeare
[T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it's power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of theirvirtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
~ Thomas Jefferson
I don't go to mythical places with strange men.
~ Douglas Adams
I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo
~ Thom Yorke
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
~ Thomas Carlyle
The music business is filled with some nice people but a lot of strange people, so when you come across someone who's really genuine at an environment as bizarre as an awards show, you typically gravitate to them.
~ Jack Antonoff
It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders.
~ Nick Hornby
Do you see that out there? The strange, unfamiliar light? It's called the sun. Let's go get us a little.
~ Nora Roberts
You just don't expect to meet dead people.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Katherine's theory is that everyone looking to make a new life migrates west, across America to the Pacific Ocean. Once there, the cheapest city where they can live is Portland. This gives us the most cracked of the crackpots. The misfits among misfits. "We just accumulate more and more strange people," she says. "All we are are the fugitives and refugees.
~ Chuck Palahniuk