Quotes of: Strange-world Keyword

We are strangely biased, as individuals and media institutions, to focus on big sudden changes, whether good or bad - amazing breakthroughs, such as a new gadget that gets released, or catastrophic failures, like a plane crash.

Steven Johnson

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind.

Clive Bell

A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itsel...

Jerry Saltz

Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?

After Eden

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

Allegiant

You are something different – something some people find strange and fearful – but what you are is as natural as being male or female.

The Angel

They knew many things but had no idea why. And strangely this made them more, rather than less, certain that they were right.

Anathem

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

The Heart Specialist

It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.

How Green Was My Valley

Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.

I Capture the Castle

Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.

I is for Innocent

There is no reason for him to be in a strange land, the grim reaper holding him close, saying, "Yes, today is the day," or "No, not yet.

I'll Be Seeing You

None of us need ever fear that we don't have an active imagination, because imagination is mostly a willingness to entertain a strange idea now and then.

Keys to Drawing

Everyone claims to be okay with freedom of religion, but the moment you mention God there is a strange tension that fills the air. If there was a 6th sense, that would be it.

Killosophy

It was strange how you didn’t realise how much you loved a place until you had lost it completely.

Rapture

He peered down at me. “Jesus Christ. You’re leaking.” If by “leaking” he meant “sobbing like a girl,” I guess so.

Strange Angels

The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.

Strange Bodies

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

A Scanner Darkly

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?

Ship of Destiny

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

Stone of Farewell

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Shirley