“I often pose questions to myself and want the answers. The questions may be psychological or emotional. Or they may involve botany or [...] physiology. [...] I am very curious about strangers I observe - as in a bus line. I am very attached to finding out answers.” WantMayLinesAnswersEmotionalFindingsStrangerPsychologicalCuriousBusPhysiologyBotany Author:Lydia Davis
“I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.” EndsFindingsConnectionsSurpriseStrangerIntimate Author:Aleksandra Mir
“As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head” MightNightWalksLandStrangeFindingsLaysStrangerMilesStranger In A Strange Land Author:Mary Church Terrell
“I mean, the radical contingency that is - that exists and the fact that I'm going into the streets and finding random strangers any given day - who's in these streets that day?” MeanFactsGivenStreetsFindingsStrangerRadicalContingencyThese Streets Author:Kehinde Wiley
“There's a team of filmmakers who follow me in the streets when I'm finding these models, to give me a sense of legitimacy to a casual stranger. This is New York City. No one's going to follow you back to your studio.” GivingCitiesTeamStreetsNew YorkFindingsModelsGive MeStudiosStrangerFilmmakerNew York CityCasualFollow MeLegitimacy Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Enter, stranger, but take heed Of what awaits the sin of greed, For those who take, but do not earn, Must pay most dearly in their turn. So if you seek beneath our floors A treasure that was never yours, Thief, you have been warned, beware Of finding more than treasure there.” IfsHas BeensTurnsSinPayFindingsGreedStrangerTreasureThievesHeed Author:J. K. Rowling
“I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.” WayWantBelieveBookIdeasFacesCertainI BelieveChanceAbilityPerfectOur LivesMagicParticularPeriodsFindingsMeetingsI Believe InStrangerNo IdeaStaringSuitableStrollingAisleBookshopsChance Meeting Author:Cecelia Ahern
“Stranger, pause and look; From the dust of ages Lift this little book, Turn the tattered pages, Read me, do not let me die! Search the fading letters finding Steadfast in the broken binding All that once was I!” LooksLittlesBookAgeDiesTurnsBrokenFindingsPagesLettersLet MeStrangerDustLiftsPausesBindingFadingSteadfast Book:The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection Source: The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
“A great friendship was like a great work of art, he thought. It took time and attention, and a spark of something that was impossible to describe. It was a happy, lucky accident, finding some kindred part of yourself in a total stranger." pg. 287” ArtAttentionImpossibleLuckyFindingsStrangerAccidentsWorks Of ArtSparksGreat WorkKindredGreat Friendship Author:Elise Broach