Strange Places Quotes - Page 2

• I think in L.A., in terms of the music scene, it's a really strange place. It's really hard to get the feeling that something's happening, or the feeling that something can make it out of there.

  Aleksa Palladino

  Thinking, Feelings, Scene

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• She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.

  Laura Riding

  People, Kind, Venison

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

  Concha Buika

  Dream, Vegas, Broken

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• The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it.

  Chris Weitz

  Writing, People, Letters

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• The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

  Pauley Perrette

  Lying, Strange, Internet

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• I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

  Ziggy Marley

  Travel, Jamaica, People

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Apr 21, 2012

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• But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

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• For as long as I can remember, my father saved. He saves money, he saves disfigured sticks that resemble disfigured celebrities, and most of all, he saves food. Cherry tomatoes, sausage biscuits, the olives plucked from other people's martinis --he hides these things in strange places until they are rotten. And then he eats them.

  David Sedaris

  Father, Food, Long

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Let go," he advised me, and I loosened my grip on his hands. "No, not of me," he said, smiling. "You can hold on to me as long as you want. Let go of the pain, Sookie. Let go. You need to drift away." It was the first time I had relinquished my will to someone else. As I looked at him, it became easy, and I retreated from the suffering and uncertainty of this strange place.

  Charlaine Harris

  Letting Go, Pain, Hands

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.113, Penguin

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• When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.

  Patricia McCormick

  Running, Eye, People

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• I would have bought you some more, but since they didn’t have tags in them, I didn’t know what size to buy. (Sunshine) Great. I live to be stuck in strange places, naked. (Talon)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sunshine, Naked, Tag

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• It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place

  Cornelia Funke

  Book, Ideas, Inkheart

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.20, Scholastic Inc.

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• What are you doing?" "Ya!" said Jane, whirling around, her hands held up menacingly. It was Mr. Nobley with coat, hat, and cane, watching her with wide eyes. Jane took several quick (but oh so casual) steps away from Martin's window. "Um, did I just say, 'Ya'?" "You just said 'Ya,'" he confirmed. "If I am not mistaken, it was a battle cry, warning that you were about to attack me. I, uh..." She stopped to laugh. "I wasn't aware until this precise and awkward moment that when startled in a startled in a strange place, my instincts would have me pretend to be a ninja.

  Shannon Hale

  Eye, Hands, Laughing

  Shannon Hale (2013). “Austenland: A Novel”, p.81, A&C Black

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• It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Play, Superhero, Film

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

  Nina Simone

  Way, Hours, Five

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them.

  Morgan Freeman

  Coffins, Sailor, Reason Why

  "Morgan Freeman: 'Strive for Pleasure and Peace'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The Internet is a really strange place to be.

  Justin Timberlake

  Strange, Internet

  "Justin Timberlake and Cameron Diaz have a good chat about 'Bad Teacher'". Hollywood News Interview, www.hollywoodnews.com. June 22, 2011.

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• Several times we were stranded in strange places without any money and with our credit cards cancelled - trapped in a hotel that we couldn't check out of because we had no money to check out.

  Renny Harlin

  Cards, Credit, Checks

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• I'm always afraid going into strange places, but I also choose carefully and listen to my instincts. These were men I could trust. I'm a pretty good judge of crazy versus sad. I prefer sad.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Crazy, Men, Judging

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

  Katy Perry

  Thinking, Class, Black

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• To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming."

  Annie Lennox

  Strong Women, Vulnerable, Surreal

  "Annie Lennox: Music + Passion + Freedom". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In America, to have news that has explicitly taken a position is a very strange place to be in, and it's a very dangerous place to be in. And that's happening on Facebook, as you saw, and that's happening online. People are just being given their news and not the news, which is really, really scary.

  Trevor Noah

  Taken, America, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm aware of [Doctor Strange] place within the comic pantheon of it all, the Marvelverse, but I don't email saying, "When are we doing next film?" I'm excited to see.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Doctors, Email, Next

  "‘Doctor Strange': Benedict Cumberbatch on His Strange Journey to Becoming the Sorcerer Supreme". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. September 27, 2016.

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• Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much.

  Buddy Hackett

  Fun, Golf, Naked

  Buddy Hackett (1968). “The Truth about Golf: And Other Lies”

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• School was a strange place where they tried to make you into something.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Rama, Strange

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