“My parents are aging and there are difficult issues. It's strange to have children at the beginning of life and parents nearing the end.” ChildrenEndsParentDifficultIssuesStrangeAgingBeginning Of Life Author:Amy Waldman
“Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers, and the two groups watch each other's strange behavior with apparent bewilderment. But unlike the inhabitants of Lilliput, who fought holy crusades over the question at which end to break the egg, the potato-washing monkeys do not go to war with the non-washers, because the poor creatures have no language which would enable them to declare washing a diving commandment and eating unwashed potatoes a deadly heresy.” TwoWarEndsSometimesLanguagePoorWatchesBreakTakenGroupsSocietyStrangeHolyCreaturesBehaviorEatingRiversEggsCommandmentsTribesMonkeysPotatoesHeresyWashingCrusadesDivingBewilderment Author:Arthur Koestler
“The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me. Everything I've done ends up working in my favor. Even when I make mistakes and people exploit my mistakes on television or on the Internet, and they use it to make fun of me, it's just kind of working in my favor at the end. It's really strange.” PeopleKindEndsDoneUseProblemFunMistakeTelevisionStrangeInternetFavorsMaking MistakesExploitsMy MistakesI Make Mistakes Author:David Hasselhoff
“You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.” WorldEndsJobsNextActorsCausesBitsWaitingCareersStrangeProfessionBridgesThrown Author:David Oakes
“It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of.” ThinkingMenWorldGivingLooksEndsWomenWalksMysteryStrangeColdAccountsHotMilesTeethLiftsFiftyChairsTremblingStrange ThingsOne WomanHot And Cold Book:Adam Bede Source: Adam Bede
“This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that were written about the fall of the iron curtain, nobody anywhere lamented that it was the end of a noble experiment. I know that communism never worked and I would have disliked living under it myself but none the less it seems that there was a kind of sadness in the thought that the only economic system that appeared to work was one based on self interest and greed.” KnowsYearsKindEndsSelfSeemsFallInterestWrittenSadnessEconomicStrangeEuropeDiedGreedNobleExperimentsCommunismIronCurtainsSelf InterestEconomic SystemsIron Curtain Author:Bill Bryson
“One of the things that puzzles me is that so few people want to look at life as a totality and to recognize that death is no more extraordinary than birth. When they say it's the end of everything they don't seem to recognize that we came from somewhere and it would be very, very strange indeed to suppose that we're not going somewhere.” PeopleWantLooksEndsSeemsWould BeStrangeBirthExtraordinaryPuzzlesTotality Book:Conversations with Robertson Davies Source: Conversations with Robertson Davies
“Mao is a sometime Yin sometime Yang strange man, he has a soft-as-cotton outer layer, but at the same time has sharp needles hiding inside... I do not think he could achieve anything, at the end he will be crushed inside my palm.” ThinkingMenEndsAchieveStrangeHidingLayersPalmsCrushedNeedlesCottonMaoYangStrange Man Author:Chiang Kai-shek
“I have a lot of interest in interior rhyming; not just rhyming at the end of the lines, but playing around with rhymes within the lines, playing with where the syllabic emphases in the sentences are, lining those up at strange moments in the line of the song. I’m not sure if that comes across or not.” IfsEndsMomentsSongInterestLinesStrangeSentencesNot SureRhymeInteriorsEmphasisRhymingPlaying Around Author:Joanna Newsom