Quotes of: Strange-world Keyword

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with eyes wide open in wonder. Everything in the world is ...

The Revolt of the Masses

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go ther...

Rory Stewart

Everything in the existing world seemed strange to him; it was as if the world had been created for some brief, mocking game. But this game of make-believe had dragged on for a long time,for eternity, and nobody felt like laughing anymore.

Soul

You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy....

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

For the rest of the night he sat by himself under the elm-tree. Until this moment it had never seemed to him that his magicianship set him apart from other men. But now he had glimpsed the wrong side of something. He had the eeriest feeling - as if t...

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

You ask me if I do not think that men are strange beings - I do indeed, I have often thought so - and I think too that the mode of bringing them up is strange, they are not half sufficiently guarded from temptation - Girls are protected as if they we...

Charlotte Bronte

It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.

Franklin P. Jones

Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.

Joel Sternfeld

In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely.

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Walking to the subway, Aomame kept thinking about the strangeness of the world. If, as the dowager had said, we were nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn’t our genetic purpose – to trans...

1Q84

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

The Terror

To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a langua...

Palimpsest

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking — which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling. Nothing is fun when you have to do it — over and over, again and again...

The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

Much Ado About Nothing

It was strange how loud the world was when you weren't filling it up with your own noise.

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world.

Renata Adler

But what I knew then was that nobody-- not even my mother-- was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself on the surface.

Robertson Davies

My upbringing is so fundamentally different to my parents'. It must be strange to look at your child who not only speaks with a different accent but has a totally different view of the world.

Stephen Mangan

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

Sara Sheridan

It is strange - people chase and hoard money, and even cheat the world to become rich only to finally leave it all behind.-RVM

Rvm

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

Camille Claudel