Quotes of: Strange-things Keyword

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

Dean Stanley

I have a strange career. I know it because people come up to me, like colleagues, and say, 'Chris, you have a strange career.'

Chris Adami

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.

Johnny Depp

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

Elon Musk

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

Death in a Strange Country

Less possessing-less possessed. More possessing-more possessed. More possessed-less accessed. Less possessed-more accessed.

The Book of Mirdad: The Strange Story of a Monastery Which Was Once Called the Ark

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

Hellboy, Vol. 6: Strange Places

The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga

In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Eleanor," Daniel said. "Miss Fitt! Wake up!" I fluttered my eyelids open. "I'm not a misfit anymore," I rasped. "I thought I told you that.

Something Strange and Deadly

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

A Strange Kind of Paradise: India Through Foreign Eyes

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!

She

That child of Hell had nothing human; nothing lived in him but fear and hatred.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

No, sir. I make it a rule of mine: The more it looks like Queer Street, the less I ask.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Abstract design is all right—for wallpaper or linoleum. But is the process of evoking pity or terror, which is not abstract at all but very human.

Stranger in a Strange Land

To my mother, I was everything. To my father, nothing at all. To my grandmother, I was a daily reminder of loves long lost.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Stranger in a Strange Land

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Christ is sufficient. We do not need "support groups" for each and every separate tribulation. The most widely divergent sorrows may all be taken to the foot of the same old rugged cross and find there cleansing, peace, and joy.

These Strange Ashes