Quotes of: Strange Keyword

The past was worth remembering and knowing in its own right. It was not behind us, never truly behind us, but under us, holding us up, a foundation for all that was to come and everything that had ever been.

In a Strange City

Indeed. I have often thought that when a man selects one word over another he often reveals far more of himself than he intended.

The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack

Do you know your Bible?' 'Uh, not very well.' 'It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

Stranger in a Strange Land

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Stranger in a Strange Land

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Death isn't funny." "Then why are there so many jokes about death? Jill, with us — us humans — death is so sad that we must laugh at it.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

Stranger in a Strange Land

He was delighted to recognize his own human name on two of the papers; he always got an odd thrill out of reading it, as if he were two places at once.

Stranger in a Strange Land

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Memory did not let go; it remained the net dragged in one's wake, with all sorts of strange things snarled in the knotted strands.

Toll the Hounds

So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

As dad would always say, when in doubt- play for time.

The Venetian's Wife: A Strangely Sensual Tale of a Renaissance Explorer, a Computer, and a Metamorphosis

Daughters can spend ten percent more than a man can make in any usual occupation. That’s a law of nature, to be known henceforth as ‘Harshaw’s Law.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Just because love don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.

John Jay

A big slice of the strange, a zap to the synaptic net, the shock of unending Otherness moistened with meaning, special stinks, grace notes, blaring daylight that illuminated without instructing. A marathon that addicted. To wake up from cold sleep an...

Shipstar

In short, Daniel was once again a member of a family. Viewed from without they were a strange enough family: a rattling, hunchbacked old woman, a spoiled senile cocker spaniel, and a eunuch with a punctured career (for though Rey didn’t live with t...

On Wings Of Song: A Novel

So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.

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

All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.

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