Stranger Quotes - Page 9

• In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

  Raymond Mortimer

  Islam, Faces, Skirts

  Raymond Mortimer (1976). “Try anything once”, Hamish Hamilton

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• Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

  Bell Hooks

  People, Abuse, Might

  bell hooks (2014). “Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black”, p.97, Routledge

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• I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time.

  Krzysztof Kieslowski

  People, Everyday, Goes On

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• If no one saw - it didn't count. It's only when you eat in front of strangers or people that make you feel guilty that food is really fattening.

  Arabella Weir

  People, Weight, Saws

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• History presents the pleasantest features of poetry and fiction,--the majesty of the epic, the moving accidents of the drama, the surprises and moral of the romance. Wallace is a ruder Hector; Robinson Crusoe is not stranger that Croesus; the Knights of Ashby never burnish the page of Scott with richer lights of lance and armor than the Carthaginians, winding down the Alps, cast upon Livy.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Drama, Moving, Epic

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

  John Scalzi

  Imagine, Empty, Bigger

  John Scalzi (2014). “Old Man's War Boxed Set I”, p.37, Macmillan

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• if there ever was a time for sentimentality and traditional merrymaking, one that has transcended religious orientation, Christmas must be that time. The effect seems salutary: even people who ordinarily are as colorful and gay as groundworms, who would dare not consider a flamboyant gesture, hang long strings of brightly colored lights around their houses, trim Christmas trees, and talk to strangers.

  Anna Thomas

  Christmas, Religious, Gay

  Anna Thomas (1972). “The Vegetarian Epicure”, Vintage

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• I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

  Judith Kelman

  Children, Parent, Firsts

  Judith Kelman (2005). “Where Shadows Fall”, Jove

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• Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

  Sarah Silverman

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in overly intimate personal conversations with strangers, which I pretty much never want to do.

  Michelle Tea

  Book, Writing, Differences

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• What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Sleep, Divorce

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.6, Vintage

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• If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.

  Pierre Omidyar

  People, Distrust, Remarkable

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• Anything is possible on a train: a great meal, a binge, a visit from card players, an intrigue, a good night's sleep, and strangers' monologues framed like Russian short stories.

  Paul Theroux

  Good Night, Sleep, Player

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Great Railway Bazaar”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a couple of words of the language and a few of the cultural abnormalities, but basically you're a stranger in a strange land.

  Anthony Heald

  Country, Couple, Player

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.

  Matthew Pearl

  Book, Talking, Long

  Matthew Pearl (2015). “The Last Bookaneer: A Novel”, p.22, Penguin

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• I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Care, Feels, Abstraction

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Brain, Facts, Fiction

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• Strange - I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  Dani Shapiro

  Husband, Book, Way

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• Is there an idea more radical in the history of the human race than turning your children over to total strangers whom you know nothing about, and having those strangers work on your child's mind, out of your sight, for a period of twelve years? Could there be a more radical idea than that? Back in Colonial days in America, if you proposed that kind of idea, they'd burn you at the stake, you mad person! It's a mad idea!

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

  Alafair Burke

  Girlfriend, Murder Victims, Half

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• We were basically strangers going off into the wilderness

  Matt Prior

  Wilderness

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• "Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

  Patricia Marx

  Practice, Surfing, Couches

  "You're Welcome" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. April 16, 2012.

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• Guy Savelli's role in the War on Terror began when half-a-dozen strangers, within days of one another, contacted him via e-mail and telephone in the winter of 2003. They asked him if he had the power to psychically kill goats. Guy was bewildered. He did not go around publicizing this. Who were these men? How did they know about the goats? He feigned a casual tone of voice and said, 'Sure I can.'Then he phoned Special Forces.

  Jon Ronson

  War, Winter, Men

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• If cosmological theory were dominated by women, who are no strangers to cycles, how can we know for sure that we wouldn't then be told that the oscillating universe is the more aesthetically fulfilling alternative?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Culture, Alternatives, Theory

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• In recent years, there have been reports of people with twisted minds putting razor blades and poison in taffy apples and Halloween candy. It is no longer safe to let your child eat treats that come from strangers.

  Ann Landers

  Children, Halloween, Years

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