Strange Quotes - Page 5

• Love is a strange commodity, because you can't import it if you don't also export it.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Love Is, Commodity, Imports

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

  Plutarch

  May, Gains, Process

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• Los Angeles: A city I like because it's easy to tell who the strange people are.

  Margo Kaufman

  Cities, People, Los Angeles

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• Bonkers is kind of a combination of Jerry Lewis and Harpo Marx, which is very strange because Harpo never spoke!

  Jim Cummings

  Kind, Spokes, Combination

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• "Do you believe in intuition?"
  "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will."
  People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.
  Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• Such a strange thing. What was terrible for a healthy fetus has been wonderful at defeating the cancer cells.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

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• Poverty has strange bedfellows.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Poverty, Strange Bedfellows, Bedfellows

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• A familiar name cannot make a man less strange to me. It may be given to a savage who retains in secret his own wild title earnedin the woods. We have a wild savage in us, and a savage name is perchance somewhere recorded as ours.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Names, Secret

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.407, Penguin

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• Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to believing that it is merely a canvas for members to act out strange, unresolved conflicts and desires.

  Emily Yoffe

  Believe, People, Innovation

  "Slate: Advice from 'Dear Prudence' on Mom's facial hair, proselytizing bosses, wedding boycotts and family rifts". Q&As with Prudie, www.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Hi, this is Bernard Fanning from Powderfinger. I'm in New York at the moment, and we've been walking around the city, it's pretty strange. I was walking along with Darren and Cogsy yesterday and we saw this guy playing cards, a little two up type swindle, and he ripped this guy off for like one hundred bucks in like, ten seconds, and the guy started complaining so he just packed up his shop and left! And it was the smoothest swindle any of us had ever seen. So that was probably the highlight of our trip here so far.

  Bernard Fanning

  New York, Cities, Two

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• Loads of weirdos send me things, like strange bits of leather. And then there was the guy who thought I was having his baby. Apparently, he's been writing to Princess Anne too, so I clearly belong to a good, erm, sub-section of society.

  Konnie Huq

  Baby, Princess, Writing

  "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

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• I wrote a cheesy love song - called "Tender Torture". I guess it's more of a song about being away from someone that you love. It's pretty strange. It's sincere, I guess. It's actually something that I really felt.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Song, Cheesy, Sincere

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• Even then, I didn't quite know what to make of it [captain Kirk death]. I was mystified by why I was doing it, why I was so driven to do it, and why it was affecting me like it was. I still don't know what it means. It's a strange singular experience. I don't even know anyone to talk to about it because I don't know anyone who's had that experience.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Mean, Captain Kirk, Captains

  Source: collider.com

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• To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous.

  Confucius

  Teaching, Dangerous, Oneself

  "The Analects". Book by Confucius,

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• It is strange how a man believes he can think better in a special place. I have such a place, have always had it, but I know it isn't thinking I do there, but feeling and experiencing and remembering. It's a safety place. Everyone must have one, although I never heard a man tell of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  "The Winter of Our Discontent". Book by John Steinbeck. Part One, Chapter III, 1961.

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• A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

  Henry David Thoreau

  May, Stranger, Provinces

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

  Whitley Strieber

  Fall, Night, Voice

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• Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.

  Khalil Gibran

  Rights, Vigor

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• Real miracles bother people, like strange sudden pains unknown in medical literature.

  Leif Enger

  Pain, Real, People

  Leif Enger (2007). “Peace Like a River”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

  Honore de Balzac

  Girl, Angel, Forgiving

  Honore de Balzac (2015). “Father Goriot”, p.92, Library of Alexandria

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• It is not strange that men of note and learning, attracted by the wealth of symbolism on Masonry, as well as by its spirit of fraternity perhaps, also by its secrecy began at an early date to ask to be accepted as members of the order; hence Accepted Masons. How far back the custom of admitting such men to the Lodge goes is not clear, but hints of it are discernable in the oldest documents of the order.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Men, Order, Symbolism

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.138, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

  Angelina Jolie

  Thinking, Strange Places, Parent

  "Straight from the Heart". "Dateline NBC" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. May 23, 2007.

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• There is no crime greater, or more worthy of punishment, than being strange and frightened among the strange and frightened; except assimilation to the end of becoming strange and frightened, but apart from ones own real self.

  Israel Horovitz

  Real, Self, Punishment

  Israel Horovitz (1968). “The Indian Wants the Bronx”, p.5, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

  Rupert Grint

  Names, People, Really Weird

  Interview with Lizo Mzimba, news.bbc.co.uk. October 24, 2012.

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