Strange Things Quotes - Page 6

• Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

  Raymond Chandler

  Inspiration, Strange

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.36, Vintage

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• Life was such a strange thing, so permanent when one had it, so fleeting when it was lost- and those who lost it could never tell you what it was like, could they?

  Tom Clancy

  Fleeting, Strange, Lost

  Tom Clancy (2001). “The Bear and the Dragon”, p.13, Penguin

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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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• The funny thing is, nationalism only could have come about in Europe after the invention of printing. You could have this thing that was a book in a vernacular language, and you could imagine there were other readers of this book who you couldn't see, but they were a theoretical union of readers who all use the same language. That is kind of a prerequisite for a national fantasy. You need that thing, and it's a strange thing.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Europe, Funny Things

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Being in love is a very strange thing.

  Pittacus Lore

  Being In Love, Love Is, Strange

  Pittacus Lore (2011). “The Power of Six: Lorien Legacies”, p.149, Penguin UK

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• To me, the whole idea of fame and I think it can be a real test of somebody, of who they are. You know, 'cause some strange things happen. I've seen some peculiar things as far as a person just living their life.

  Tobey Maguire

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
  Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
  Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
  It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Mad, Shade

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• ... 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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• 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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• '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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• 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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• 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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• But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in The Dukes of Hazzard? I mean, hello?

  Joseph Fiennes

  Mean, Hollywood Films, Judging

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

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• As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.

  Paul Auster

  Boys, Littles, Strange

  Paul Auster (2010). “Collected Prose: Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, Collaborations with Artists, and Interviews”, p.501, Macmillan

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• I've been thinking about something for a long time, and I keep noticing that most human speech-if not all human speech-is made with the outgoing breath. This is the strange thing about presence and absence. When we breath in, our bodies are filled with nutrients and nourishment. Our blood is filled with oxygen, our skin gets flush; our bones get harder-they get compacted. Our muscles get toned and we feel very present when we're breathing in. The problem is, that when we're breathing in, we can't speak. So presence and silence have something to do with each other.

  Li-Young Lee

  Thinking, Oxygen, Blood

  "The Totality of Causes". Interview with Tina Chang, www.poets.org. February 21, 2014.

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• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  Kay Ryan

  Thinking, Self, Talking

  "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.

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• Dream strange things and make them look like truth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Dream, Looks, Strange

  The Scarlet Letter "The Custom-House" (1850)

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• The strange thing about the English character is that they understate everything. It's considered bad form to comment on the food, money, romance, any of those things. So you underplay it.

  Patrick Macnee

  Character, Romance, Strange

  "The Avengers: The Inside Story". Book by Patrick Macnee and ‎Dave Rogers, 2008.

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