Quotes of: Strange-world Keyword

[last lines] Spock Prime: [closing monologue] Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her ongoing mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life-forms and new civilizations; to boldly go where no one...

Star Trek

Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise.

Welsh

We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of the fanatic who wrecks this world out of hatred of the other? He sacrifices the very existence of humanity to the non-existence of ...

Orthodoxy

Sinuhe, my friend, we have been born into strange times. Everything is melting – changing its shape – like clay on a potter’s wheel. Dress is changing, words, customs are changing, and people no longer believe in the gods – though they may fe...

Unknown

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

Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

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

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

I wouldn’t use the word ‘man’. The Hebrew is , which I would argue encompasses both sexes.

The Book of Strange New Things

There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

The Book of Strange New Things

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

But the other Ministers considered that to employ a magician was one thing, novelists were quite another and they would not stoop to it.

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