Quotes of: Strange Keyword

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five billion strangers.

Stranger in a Strange Land

But while the thought of being dead seemed appealing, the actual act of dying did not.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along.

Stranger in a Strange Land

English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.

Stranger in a Strange Land

It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

Long For This World: The Strange Science of Immortality

It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.

Like Life

Ben, why should anybody want that much power?" "Why does a moth fly toward light?

Stranger in a Strange Land

Oh, you have to charge 'em, Jubal. The marks won't pay attention if it's free.

Stranger in a Strange Land

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Stranger in a Strange Land

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Stranger in a Strange Land

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

Steampunk! An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories

But some secrets are so strange and so dangerous that showing them to people makes the strangeness and the danger pour into their lives like a dark, dark ink.

Shouldn't You Be in School?

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Stranger in a Strange Land

I likes me some ‘Shit Blows Up’ fiction, don’t get me wrong.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.

Darren Criss

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.

Robert Bridges

I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to be funny or strange or poignant; you have to let the details be funny or strange or poignant for you.

Karen Abbott

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

John Banville