Stranger Quotes - Page 29

• Art is the closest we can come to understanding how a stranger really feels.

  Roger Ebert

  Art, Understanding, Feels

  "11th Hour", Colorado Public Television, 1994.

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• Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
  Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
  And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
  Must ask permission to know it and be known.
  The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
  I have made this place around you,
  If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
  No two trees are the same to Raven.
  No two branches are the same to Wren.
  If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
  You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
  Where you are. You must let it find you.

  David Wagoner

  Powerful, Ravens, Two

  David Wagoner (1999). “Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• A Concordance of Leaves is an epic poem of the indomitable yet fragile human spirit. Philip Metres brings Palestine and Palestinians into English with rare luminosity. One feels echoes of Oppen's succinct tenderness in the depiction of the numerous characters of this work. Without other, there is no self. And that other is the stranger who must be loved. Concordance is, after all, a wedding poem-leaves and pages in search of a certain passage toward harmony.

  Fady Joudah

  Character, Epic, Echoes

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• So here are reasons why I talk to strangers: because I never know what might happen, because the world is full of surprises; because the very thing I am most worried about might turn into the thing I need most.

  Camille Dungy

  Needs, World, Might

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• When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Lonely, Fall

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace. You have to hang in there, because two or three years later, the gremlins will return your child and he will be wonderful again.

  Jill Eikenberry

  Children, Years, Two

  "For the Love of Children". Book by Eva Shaw (p. 133), 1998.

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• Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Imagination, Enemy

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• That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Dogs, the foremost snobs in creation, are quick to notice the difference between a well-clad and a disreputable stranger.

  Albert Payson Terhune

  Dog, Differences, Creation

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• We often talk to ourselves in ways that we would never let a stranger or even a friend talk to us.

  John Spence

  Thinking, Way

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• It is unthinkable to allow complete strangers, whether individually or collectively as state legislators or others in government, to make such personal decisions for someone else.

  Sarah Weddington

  Government, Abortion, Decision

  Sarah Ragle Weddington (1993). “A question of choice”, Penguin Group USA

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• Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain! I feel the gales that from ye blow A momentary bliss bestow.

  Thomas Gray

  Happiness, Pain, Blow

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.391

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• I saw you with your envoy A consenting adult Technique in moderation But vogue to the cult Me I've got my strangers To exile in the night I guess I'm just addicted To the pain of delight

  Melissa Etheridge

  Pain, Night, Justice

  Melissa Etheridge, Laura Morton (2011). “The Truth Is . . .: My Life in Love and Music”, p.90, Random House

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• Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

  Milton Friedman

  Birthday, Morning, Mirrors

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• Fifty or sixty shooters had already arrived and managed to look studiously bored. I knew a few of them and nodded politely. No one asked me to sit next to them, nor would I have accepted if they had. It's better that way, in case you end up on opposite sides of a fight, and a whole lot safer. Friends can betray you. Strangers can't.

  William C. Dietz

  Friendship, Betrayal, Fighting

  William C. Dietz (2014). “Bodyguard”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

  Thomas Paine

  Love, Tyrants, Europe

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense: and The American Crisis I”, p.32, Penguin

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• I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Thinking, Issues

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• I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride.

  Lana Del Rey

  Kindness, War, Believe

  "Ride". Video clip, "Born to Die" album deluxe edition, www.youtube.com. October 12, 2012.

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• When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

  Chinua Achebe

  Brother, Father, Fighting

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• This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.

  R.K. Narayan

  Education, Roots, Office

  R. K. Narayan (2012). “The English Teacher”, p.328, Vintage

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• We cannot understand all the traits we have inherited. Sometimes we can be strangers to ourselves.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Sometimes, Traits

  V. S. Naipaul (2012). “A Way in the World: A Sequence”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

  Euripides

  Fate, Sorrow, Cursed

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• And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

  Herman Melville

  Taken, Self, May

  Herman Melville (1857). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.24

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• Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction.

  Carol Alt

  Fiction, Facts, Sometimes

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

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• Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Interesting, Fiction, Truth Is

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