Stranger Quotes - Page 38

• Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Lasts, Whole Life

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.161, Oneworld Publications

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• If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony; in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedrooms fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don't know then. But later you realize - that was the moment.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Airports, Sight

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.50, Oneworld Publications

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• Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Secret, Sometimes

  Michelle Hodkin (2013). “The Evolution of Mara Dyer”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers.

  Chris Pirillo

  People, Underwear, Computer

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• New York is a glamorous city, constituted mostly of nobodies. They crave the lights, and if they tell you differently, they're lying. Only dreamers come to New York. As a matter of course, few people have control of their lives. You live at the whim of your boss, your landlord, your grocer, the stranger, the judge, the bus driver, the mayor who won't let you smoke. On the other hand, you live at the whim of your whims, and that is the most exciting thing there is.

  Charlie LeDuff

  New York, Lying, Light

  Charlie LeDuff (2004). “Work and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts”, p.24, Penguin

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• Something was comforting about strangers—it seemed like they would exist forever as the same, unknowable mass.

  Megan Boyle

  Forever, Comforting, Mass

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• Making clothes involves what I like...color, pattern, shape and movement...I like the everyday process...the people, the pressure, the surprise of seeing the work come alive walking and dancing around on strangers. Like red lipstick on the mouth, my products wake up and brighten and bring the wearer to life...drawing attention to her beauty and specialness...her moods and movements...her dreams and fantasies.

  Betsey Johnson

  Dream, Color, Drawing

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• It is easy to make a picture of someone and call it a portrait. The difficulty lies in making a picture that makes the viewer care about a stranger.

  Paul Strand

  Lying, Portraits, Care

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than the person that's closest to us. And you just got to remember not to take for granted that person that's closest to you.

  Michael Douglas

  People, Effort, Remember

  "Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones Back Together - and Doing 'Great'" by Elizabeth Gonzalez, abcnews.go.com. May 9, 2014.

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• The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Mind

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Country, Technology, Men

  Simone de Beauvoir (1968). “Les Belles Images”

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• Strangers are what friends are made of.

  Cullen Hightower

  Made

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• The individual who has become a stranger to himself has lost the capacity for genuine self-renewal.

  John W. Gardner

  Self, Individual, Renewal

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• Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Tape, Fundamentals

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• Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Love Is, Desire, Selective

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• Every morning when I wake up, I dedicate myself to helping others to find peace of mind. Then, when I meet people, I think of them as long term friends; I don't regard others as strangers.

  Dalai Lama

  Friends, Peace, Buddhist

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• Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

  Walter Kirn

  Choices, Important, Together

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• No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Invisible, Come Up, Talk To Me

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• One of the most awkward things that can happen in a pub is when your pint-to-toilet cycle gets synchronised with a complete stranger.

  Peter Kay

  Awkward, Toilets, Pubs

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• Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

  Hilary Thayer Hamann

  Faces, Muscles, Streets

  Hilary Thayer Hamann (2010). “Anthropology of an American Girl: A Novel”, p.89, Spiegel & Grau

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• They say that art should stand the test of time. Life lasts a limited amount of time. Mountains and trees and earth will outlive human beings, but we don't know if they will be here always. Art does outlast the life span of its maker. Art should communicate to an increasing circle of strangers-people who do not know the artist, but come to know the work, and through the work, come to know something about the humanity of the artist that rings with their own humanity.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Art, Circles, People

  Anna Deavere Smith (2008). “Letters to a Young Artist: Straight-up Advice on Making a Life in the Arts-For Actors, Performers, Writers, and Artists of Every Kind”, p.127, Anchor

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• Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me.

  Marc Chagall

  Russia, Needs, Certain

  Marc Chagall (1960). “My Life”, New York : Orion Press

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• After nightfall the face of the country seems to alter marvelously, and the clear moonlight only intensifies the change. The river gleams like running quicksilver, and the moonbeams play over the grassy stretches of the plateaus...The Bad Lands seem to be stranger and wilder than ever, the silvery rays turning the country into a kind of grim fairyland.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Running, Country, Land

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