Quotes of: Strange-things Keyword

Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said Strange. "That has a sort of moral usefulness, I suppose, in making one feel uncomfortable and encouragin...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

All prejudice presents itself as piety, propriety.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.

Something Strange and Deadly

I have lost confidence in myself.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Support for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!

Stranger in a Strange Land

Kohi Insaan Bura Nahi Hota, Uske Haalat Use Bura Banate Hai.

Love Vs Destiny . . .the strange game of life!

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Because I'm your mother, that's why.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

The Internet is a strange, strange place that is full of lies. I would say mostly lies.

Pauley Perrette

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Robbie Williams

A strange marriage that had been, though most marriages appear strange to spectators.

Ellen Glasgow

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.

W. H. Davies

The blue sky, the brown soil beneath, the grass, the trees, the animals, the wind, and rain, and stars are never strange to me; for I am in and of and am one with them; and my flesh and the soil are one, and the heat in my blood and in the sunshine a...

Hampshire Days

It was as if a door had opened somewhere. Or possibly a series of doors. There was a sensation as of a breeze blowing into the house and bringing with it the half-remembered scents of childhood. There was a shift in the light which seemed to cause al...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

There was a strange but universal understanding among women. On some level all women knew, they all understood, the fear of being outnumbered, of being helpless. It throbbed in their chests when they thought about the times they left stores and were ...

The Peach Keeper

Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the devil's foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envy's stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind. If t...

John Donne

Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun again just as I have been standing here a little child, nothing is mine, I have no abilities, there is nothing I could bring...

Siddhartha

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

An Ethic for Christians and Other Aliens in a Strange Land

men are comfortable around strange women, but women are rarely comfortable around strange men.

64 Deaths

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

I Am a Strange Loop