Quotes of: Strange-world Keyword

What do you expect? This place is one big anti-climax.

The Book of Strange New Things

The very shapes of the trees were like frozen screams.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Fuck, if only ‘aesthetic idiom’ didn’t sound so damn poncy.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out.

Northanger Abbey

My friends love me terribly, and their grief will be a screaming storm if I die.

The Strange Maid

Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate

The Son of Neptune

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.

Ben Kingsley

The King: Strange wedding. The Queen: Yes. Very strange wedding. Come along.

The Princess Bride

A strange glass is emptied in one draught; your own glass not even in ten.

Latvian

Each step of your current journey will take you to new and interesting worlds of opportunity and as every intrepid explorer knows, when one visits strange new lands one must be aware of their customs.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

The Eye of the World

Through a strange kind of geographic arrogance, Europeans like to think that the world was a silent, dark, unknown place until they trooped out and discovered it.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

Ready Player One

Why a slow death in a strange country if you can die on the threshold of your own house? Refugees don't exist. Only blown away people exist, people blown by the wind all over the world.

Mirad, A Boy From Bosnia

Imagine the state of one's mind if they were to recall its details. All those months cocooned and then the onslaught of this ugly world. Lights and noise and strangeness. It's no wonder we scream with terror at our birth.

Quintana of Charyn

What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?

Helen

Any great art work … revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world - the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.

Leonard Bernstein

Hometown Aerosmith fans are different from other Aerosmith fans, and that mainly has to do with Joe Perry. It's tough to overstate his strange grip on the local psyche. Tyler is a star who belongs to the whole world, but Perry, that dude belongs to B...

Rob Sheffield

Watching the evening news in 2011 is a strange time-travel experience. 'The CBS Evening News,' 'ABC World News' and 'NBC Nightly News' haven't changed their style over the decades, still going for that old-fashioned mix of voice-of-authority pomp and...

Rob Sheffield