Bizarre Quotes - Page 18

• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• I find acting in contact lenses is bizarre to me, because there's just a giant filter between you and the world. I know it sounds painfully, ridiculously obvious, but it's true. You're just so detached.

  Matthew Rhys

  Acting, Sound, Giants

  "‘The Americans’ star Matthew Rhys: Philip would defect ‘in a heartbeat’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. February 4, 2015.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

  Suzanne Shaw

  Clothes, Black, Charity

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In K-12, almost everybody goes to local schools. Universities are a bit different because kids actually do pick the university. The bizarre thing, though, is that the merit of university is actually how good the students going in are: the SAT scores of the kids going in.

  Bill Gates

  School, Kids, Different

  7 Copy quote

• I was never in a school situation where someone said, This is the way a photograph is supposed to look. I was completely open to cut them up, or do anything like that. I think if I had been in touch with people earlier, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable doing that. It would have been too bizarre.

  Robert Heinecken

  School, Cutting, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• It's something that exists on a daily basis on practically every street in India. You have people who are Hindus, Muslims, Christians - not just Catholics, but Protestants, you name it, all kinds of Christians - a hundred other religions, living side by side. And the kind of personal religion that people end up practicing is a bizarre concoction of ritual drawn from each other. So everybody ends up celebrating everyone else's festivals.

  Anita Rau Badami

  Christian, Names, People

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is, after all, far too easy to pinch and kick the bizarre Mormon Church; to say it's ripe for satire and parody is to say a Catholic schoolgirl is ripe for debauchery. It's like shooting polygamist fish in a barrel of coffee.

  Mark Morford

  Coffee, Catholic, Church

  "The end of the wicked old Mormons" by Mark Morford, www.sfgate.com. May 7, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A few years ago I appeared on GLEE and, Jane Lynch and I did a remake of the song that was very popular - someone told me it was in the Top 100 when it was released. First, walking on the set of GLEE the day we filmed it was surreal as they had recreated the entire original set from the music video. It was bizarre - but fun.

  Olivia Newton-John

  Song, Fun, Years

  Source: www.mlive.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love finding myself in the most bizarre situations, drinking cobra's blood - really diverse stories. And yet, I will still turn up on location sometimes and be surprised by what I'm encountering or by how to do something.

  Phil Keoghan

  Drinking, Blood, Stories

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

  Mark Shields

  Personality, Doe, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How did we get into this funny-looking body that has a hole at one end in which we regularly stuff dead plants and animals? It's bizarre that we got here, incarnated into this world with these bodies.

  Jack Kornfield

  Animal, World, Body

  4 Copy quote

• In 2016 we are faced with a particularly bizarre and unappetizing choice as regards the two main political parties' presidential candidates, in my opinion.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Party, Two, Presidential

  Source: www.progressive.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.

  Ted Lieu

  Mean, People, Understanding

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The next four years, though, you still have to abide by the oversight process that is there to prevent this kind of bizarre sort of cult-like atmosphere that falls along. I mean, I accept that kind of veil of secrecy around Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, but I don't accept that around our government.

  Jon Stewart

  Fall, Mean, Years

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Criminals, Murder, Cases

  S. S. Van Dine (2016). “The Bishop Murder Case”, S. S. Van Dine

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I’ve often been told that I’m a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself. I feel like I’m extremely normal. I do have a bizarre face that’s a bit out of proportion. I guess that’s why some people see me as strange.

  Clemence Poesy

  People, Faces, Normal

  4 Copy quote

• [I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation], and eventually you find yourself in the room with the Radiant Being around whom all this is revolving. It's very bizarre, and it's quasi-religious, or possibly genuinely religious. Spooky. It's a spooky and interesting thing.

  William Gibson

  Religious, Artist, Rocks

  Source: craphound.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think people do sci-fi a huge disservice by lumping it as some sort of bizarre subculture genre when I think everybody's lives are impacted by sci-fi at some point.

  Mark Sheppard

  Thinking, People, Sci Fi

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.

  Adam Driver

  Awkward, Red, Carpet

  14 Copy quote

• Rilke has a very bizarre relationship to women because his mother had an older child, a girl who died when she was a baby. So when Rilke was born she named him Sophie and dressed him as a girl until he was 7. And psychologically, the repercussions of that made him the genius that he is. By the time he was 35, he was continuously falling in love with older women, mother figures, spiritual mothers.

  Laura Marling

  Girl, Mother, Spiritual

  Source: www.mtv.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is the hallmark of a robust biological system: political parties can perish in a tragic accident and the society will still run, sometimes with little more than a hiccup to the system. It may be that for every strange clinical case in which brain damage leads to a bizarre change in behavior or perception, there are hundreds of cases in which parts of the brain are damaged with no detectable clinical sign.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Party, Political

  5 Copy quote

• The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.

  Dale Jamieson

  Powerful, Technology, Decision

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

  Samuel P. Huntington

  Country, Allies, Different

  Interview With Amina Chaudary, www.theislamicmonthly.com. June 17, 2012.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.

  Hugh Hefner

  Beautiful, Photograph, Strikes

  Source: www.mtv.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I wanted it to look like real cooking in someone's real home or just so out-of-there bizarre that it would be fun.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Real, Home

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source