The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange. I haven't tried the phone number. In times of stress I may.
It's passing strange that Obama, carried to a second term by women, blacks and Latinos, chooses to give away the plumiest Cabinet and White House jobs to white dudes.
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Killing a man to save the world, does not save the world.
It is said in the Upanishads: ‘I am the Universe.’ If you ask a hundred people as to how they find the world, they are all likely to give different answers. For some, the world is beautiful and the people are good, while for others, the world is ...
Family is the one human institution we have no choice over. We get in simply by being born, and as a result we are involuntarily thrown together with a menagerie of strange and unlike people. Church calls for another step: to voluntarily choose to ba...
If I were you, Mr Lascelles," said Childermass, softly, "I would speak more guardedly. You are in the north now. In John Uskglass's own country. Our towns and cities and abbeys were built by him. Our laws were made by him. He is in our minds and hear...
We all have our patchwork ideas of India, our notions and opinions and prejudices–often fallacious and absurd–of this enormous, disparate country, which, as I take pleasure in reminding newcomers, bigger in population than all but its own contine...
At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is ...
Lou reluctantly drew back, still holding Joe, and placed his soft lips on Joe's own. Existence reacted to their reunion. Immediately, it was as if two halves became whole once again. The sky flashed colors overhead as they stood together: day to nigh...
Marshal Biggs: This is hinky, this guy's a college graduate, he went to medical school, he's not gonna come through all the security, go to the county lockup, to find someone his one people say does not exist. Hinky. Deputy Marshal Samuel Gerard: Wel...
Dr. Blair: Clark? Clark: Yeah? Dr. Blair: Did you notice anything strange about the dog? Anything at all? Clark: Strange? No. Dr. Blair: What was the dog doing in the rec room? Clark: I don't know. It's just wondering around camp all day. Dr. Blair: ...
The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.
Wouldn't it be strange, she thought, to have a blue sky? But she liked the way it looked. It would be beautiful - a blue sky.
They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.
It was strange to become a vampire ,to be presented with what could only be described as an eternal life, and then to die anyway when you're sixteen.
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
Their attention was focused on the strange kid who wore black eyeliner and dressed as if every day was a funeral.
