Strange Things Quotes - Page 6

• You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.

  Carla Gugino

  Fun, Kids, Being Real

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. April 6, 2001.

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• Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency

  Carlos Fuentes

  Children, Ignorance, Strange

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• A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more.

  Emily Browning

  Cameras, Rolling, Actors

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• That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

  Adam Yauch

  Way, Records, Strange

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• It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Dog, Horse, Rain

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Party, Men, Long Ago

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• The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Strange, Aging, Ends

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• before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.

  Jean Rhys

  Baby, Book, Strange

  Jean Rhys (2016). “Smile Please”, p.21, Penguin UK

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• I was very sad for many days when I discovered that in the world there were poor people and rich people; and the strange thing is that the existence of the poor did not cause me as much pain as the knowledge that at the same time there were people who were rich.

  Evita Peron

  Pain, People, World

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• What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Husband, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• When we are willing to accept our experience, just as it is, a strange thing happens: it changes into something else. When we avoid pain, struggle not to feel it, pain turns into suffering.

  Brenda Shoshanna

  Pain, Struggle, Suffering

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• I've been accused of humanizing the Nazis, to which I can only say, you can't blame me for that. God did that. Go talk to him. It's a strange thing for an atheist to say.

  W. D. Snodgrass

  Atheist, Strange, Blame

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• It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Pain, Comfort

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Ultimate Collection: 20 Novels & 170+ Short Stories, Poetry, Letters and Autobiography (Including The Complete Anne of Green Gables Series & Emily Starr Trilogy): Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, The Blue Castle, Rilla of Ingleside, Emily of New Moon, Emily Climbs, The Golden Road, Mistress Pat, Chronicles of Avonlea, Kilmeny of the Orchard and many more”, p.1706, e-artnow

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• ... living out of sight of any shore does rich and powerfully strange things to humans.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Travel, Sight, Doe

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.420, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do and actually failed.

  Steve Toltz

  Writing, Income, Firsts

  "Word travel with Steve Toltz". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2008.

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• In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.

  Hannah Kent

  Beautiful, Iceland, Mountain

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• Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.

  Ethan Hawke

  Children, Thinking, Play

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• 'Tis a strange thing, Sam, that among us people can't agree the whole week, because they go different ways upon Sundays.

  George Farquhar

  Sunday, People, Atheism

  George Farquhar (1772). “The Works of the Late Ingenious Mr. George Farquhar: Containing All His Poems, Letters, Essays and Comedies”, p.24

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• When there are strange things going on all around, every coincidence should be considered very carefully.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Strange, Coincidence, Should

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.42, Random House

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• Awakening the mystical kundalini prematurely is dangerous, because unless you have refined your being, you'll get all screwed up, entities, weird powers ... strange things. That is why I don't teach anyone how to open up the chakras.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Awakening, Strange

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• The werewolf film is a strange thing.

  Steve Zahn

  Strange, Film

  "Blu-ray Review - Ginger Snaps (Scream Factory)" by Shawn Savage, liberaldead.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I've always enjoyed hiding behind these characters. It's a strange thing, you're more comfortable as a character than you are in life. I could stand up in front of, it doesn't matter how many people, as a character. But if I had to do it as myself and give a speech, I would be liquid.

  Johnny Depp

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.

  David Levithan

  Hands, Years, Feelings

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• With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.

  Marketa Irglova

  Character, Feelings, Mind

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• It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Cutting, Touching, Humanity

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.85, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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