Stranger Quotes - Page 5

• I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.

  Kate Winslet

  Nice, Way, Taste

  "Kate Winslet can't take skinny Hollywood seriously but admits to trying 'dodgy' juice diet". www.mirror.co.uk. October 2, 2014.

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• [Cities] are not like suburbs, only denser. They differ from towns and suburbs in basic ways, and one of these is that cities are, by definition, full of strangers.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Definitions, Way

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.30, Vintage

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• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

  Catherine Booth

  Dominion, Sin, Salvation

  Catherine Booth (1891). “Popular Christianity, a series of lectures”

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• We meet no Stranger, but Ourself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Karma

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.478, Harvard University Press

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• Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ignorance, Ease, Ill

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1851). “Poems of King Alfred”, p.100

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• Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

  Buffalo Bill

  Brain, Lightning, Bills

  Buffalo Bill (1879). “The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill, the Famous Hunter, Scout, and Guide: An Autobiography”, p.128, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

  Michael Stipe

  Shoes, Looks

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• Fact is stranger than fiction.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Humanity, Fiction, Facts

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• Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a lot to do - we know that training workers and parents, reducing caseload size, developing therapeutic foster care, strengthening kinship care, and putting more emphasis into preventive care are all solutions. Unfortunately, if a child is in a situation where removal from the home becomes neccessary, there's already been trauma. Putting a traumatized child into a "system," not a home, with strangers is creating a perfect storm for further trauma.

  Rachel Lloyd

  Children, Home, Perfect

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• If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children and grandchildren. I want them to not send a bunch of strangers' kids in there to fight and die.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Children, Kids, Fighting

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

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• I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.

  Alexandra Daddario

  Thinking, Interesting, People

  "Dwayne Johnson & Cast Interview, San Andreas". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. May, 2015.

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• Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Thinking, World, Talent

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• There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Thinking, Skeletons

  Honore de Balzac (2009). “Eugenie Grandet”, p.5, The Floating Press

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• Unlicensed hooch from a stranger in a parking lot. Good idea? Yes, of course it is.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Ideas, Parking

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• Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Writing, Attention

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Lives of the English Poets”, p.115

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• For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

  David Cannadine

  Details Of Life, Class, Mind

  David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

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• The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.

  Edward Jay Epstein

  Stars, Stress, Thinking

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• The workmen in a factory may have a shadowy, unknown absentee "employer" - the thousands of individual owners of stock - whom "management" represents and tries to please by extra dividends. The workman's livelihood is at the disposition of strangers who make a single demand of their representatives: higher profits.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Trying, Demand

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• I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Laughing, Insane, Should

  "Not My Job: Jim Gaffigan Takes A Quiz On Gwyneth Paltrow". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. July 26, 2013.

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• When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Girl, Dog, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.180, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It has always happened hitherto that whenever I have begun to feel an attachment to places, persons, or things, of a merely temporary nature, I have been carried away from them. Amen! May I live as a stranger and pilgrim upon the earth. May we be brought to that better country where painful changes are known no more.

  Henry Martyn

  Country, Attachment, Earth

  Henry Martyn (1837). “Journals and letters of ... Henry Martyn ...”, p.237

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• The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

  George Eliot

  Wit

  George Eliot (1873). “Wise, Witty, and Tender Sayings in Prose and Verse: Selected from the Works of George Eliot”, p.313

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