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“The werewolf film is a strange thing.”

Film Strange Strange Things

Author:Steve Zahn

“Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.”

Light Strange Mountain Eternal Trade Everyday Noise Everyday Life Marketplace Hassle Eternal Light

Author:Milarepa

“Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.”

“The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.”

Ifs Littles Past Form Air Strange Bird Embrace Setting Settings Chains Halls Flew Alchemy Unbroken Timelessness Larks Ascending Anglo Saxon English Music

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and someone your own age will clasp on to your whole hand, but with six-year-olds it's something in between, this acknowledgment that they can't be the one to take hold, so you have to do all the holding, folding your hand around theirs, feeling so much bigger and responsible.”

Years Whole Feelings Hands Age Strange Mets Six Bigger Responsible Fingers Strange Things Old You Toddler Acknowledgment Six Year Olds Folding

Author:David Levithan

“Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.”

Social Animal Talking Strange Fool Tricks Pretending

Book:The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

Source: The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.”

“Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.”

Years School Remember Names Strange Nicknames Dummy

Author:John Lydon

“I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when they all were seated, a service, like a drum, kept beating, beating, till I felt my mind was going numb. And then I heard them lift a box and creak across my soul with those same boots of lead again, then space began to toll, as if the heavens were a bell and being were an ear, and I, and silence, some strange race wrecked, solitary, here. Just then, a plank in reason broke, and I fell down and down and hit a world at every plunge, and finished knowing then.”

Ifs World Mind Soul Reason Heaven Felt Space Race Brain Silence Knowing Heard Strange Ears Down And Boxes Finished My Soul Broke Lifts Funeral Boots Bells Solitary Numb Plunge Tolls Treading

Author:Andrew Solomon

“People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.”

People Thinking Rooms Half Strange Hotel Glamorous Hotel Rooms Being Famous Suitcases

Author:Ja Rule

“I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.”

Home Dream Easy Rooms Vision Mystery Strange Cold Died Transformation Certainty Vulnerability Ecstasy Sunny Helplessness Continuation Easy Days

Author:Georg Trakl

“We must look at what immigration to America involves. To the new arrivals, the change is excruciating. Learning a new language and dealing with strange customs make the first years of life in the new land painful... The economic system of the United States is a mighty engine of persuasion. It motivates people to do what otherwise they never would in return for fulfilling their dreams. In the process, people learn that there is no sharp line between physical well-being and the higher purposes of life. The comfort of owning a house is at once meeting the obligation to care for one”

“Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.”

Dream Strange Broken Vegas Las Vegas Broken Dreams Strange Places

Author:Concha Buika

“Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.”

Believe Dream Strange Shapes Telling The Truth

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.”

People May Mean Country House Left President Justice Struggle Greater Land Strange Husband Portions Resentment Elegant Mansions Iowa Good Husband Martyred Roving

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“A stranger is someone with whom you feel strange.”

Feels Information Strange Stranger

Book:Open Heart Therapy

Source: Open Heart Therapy

“Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.”

People Way Sometimes Seems Strange Listening Magazines Blogs

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I've been an atheist since I was nine years old. And my mom is really religious, so we have a strange relationship. But if my mother was right, what would be the reason that the gods could let anything bad happen in the world?”

Ifs World Years Reason Happens Would Be Mother Religious Strange Mom Atheist My Mom Nine Nine Years

Author:Tarsem Singh

“I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.”

Want My Own Cry Strange Baby Raises My Baby Nannies

Author:Tionne Watkins

“Nobody knows anything. I deal with people in all walks of life, some of whom should have some idea of what they're doing. And they're all clueless. It's astonishing that any bridges stay up, or that planes don't constantly plummet from the sky. It's heartening, in a strange way.”

People Knows Way Should Ideas Walks Deals Sky Strange Should Have Bridges Planes Astonishing Nobody Knows Walks Of Life Clueless

Author:Peter York

“Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and death by death We followed the chain of change. Till there came a time in the law of life When over the nursing sod The shadows broke and the soul awoke In a strange, dim dream of God.”

Soul God Dream Law Strange Shadow And Love Breaths Chains Broke Cycles Life And Love Nursing Laws Of Life Sod

Book:Evolution: A Poem

Source: Evolution: A Poem

“It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.”

Bits Strange Ugly

Author:Dave Schulthise

“My most cryptic, strange songs might be my most personal, but that isn't how people are going to receive them, because they don't know the code.”

People Knows Might Song Strange Code Cryptic

Author:Black Francis

“It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.”

People Want Strange Poet Exile

Author:Peter Bichsel

“The idea of celebrity has always been very strange to me because it's taking the focus away from the music and attaching it to a person. When we put someone on a pedestal or idolize them, we're giving our own power away.”

Giving Persons Ideas Focus Strange Pedestal

Author:Marketa Irglova

“With film, it's all about the actor being able to feel the things that the character's feeling. It must do some strange things to your mind. Music I find much easier because you're being honest about where you are as a person.”

Feels Mind Persons Character Feelings Able Film Actors Honest Strange Easier Being Honest Where You Are Strange Things

Author:Marketa Irglova

“The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.”

Men Book Games Written Dangerous Strange He Man Remains Active Dry Sheer Incomplete Ingenuity Participants Espionage Eccentricity Wartime

Author:Ben Macintyre

“When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.”

Ifs Next Left Strange Cold Hot Bread Combination Cooks Strongest Allies Next Day Delicious Filling Crisps Stoves Hot And Cold Eggplant

Author:Laurie Colwin

“His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them”

Thinking Feels Looks Form Imagination Strange Ice Symbols Colour Monument Freeze Iceberg

Author:J. D. Salinger

“With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.”

Looks Heart Break Strange Moon Complaining Granted Generosity Pale Horns Applause Caps Shouting Petitions Emulation

Author:William Shakespeare

“We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.”

Ifs Mind Dream Understanding Sleep Strange Goes On Awake Comparison Logical Our Dreams Follow Your Dreams Doings Small Dreams

Book:The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths

Source: The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths

“But when you first embark on the Path, your awareness won't be focused. You're likely to see all sorts of strange, dreamlike scenes. But you shouldn't doubt that all such scenes come from your own mind and nowhere else.”

Mind Firsts Path Doubt Awareness Strange Scene Focused

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.”

Doe Path Land Strange Boat Guidance Islamic Sail

Author:Al-Shafi‘i

“Strange indeed is the attraction of the forest for the minds of men.”

Men Mind Strange Attraction Forests

Book:The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses

“Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].”

“What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning.”

Men Want Has Beens Made Dream Young Universe Father Christ Morning Wonderful Strange Future Offers Exciting Great Men Over It Hints Bad Dream

Book:Mere Christianity

Source: Mere Christianity

“One day posterity will remember these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage.”

Remember Politics Common Honesty Strange One Day Ordinary Posterity Strange Times

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there this discrimination between men and women?" In our culture, the man should be outside and the woman should be at home. I wanted to study, or meet my friends, and I couldn't. And I felt very different.”

Men Should Mind Different Home Wanted Culture Asks Felt My Own Study Strange He Man Men And Women My Friends Discrimination

Author:Malina Suliman

“I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess and an unbelievable actress, and she introduced herself. As she walked away from the table I had to take a deep breath, which was strange because I've never had that with anyone.”

Thinking Stars Strange Mets Breaths Tables Actresses Obsessed Goddess Unbelievable Deep Breath Toronto Cruz Take A Deep Breath

Author:Carey Mulligan

“I read Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, which I think will subsequently be recognized as one of the first great novels of the 21st century.”

Thinking Firsts Novel Century Strange 21st Century Great Novels

Author:Lev Grossman

“The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.”

People Knows Doe Two Ideas Country Sometimes Song Three Sound Audience Know How Written Rocks Strange Pops Contemporary Appeals Theme Fascinated Rock Music

Author:Ryan Adams

“I do craft songs, that this is designed. It's almost like the song was written to produce this desired effect. And it probably really works for somebody. It's maybe somebody's favorite tune, and it's really hard to come down on that, even if I feel a little embarrassed for it. Because some songs are written like a commercial, and that can be a little strange.”

Ifs Feels Littles Hard Song Written Effects Produce Strange Crafts Tunes Embarrassed

Author:Ryan Adams

“Romance is the combination of something that is strange with something that is secure.”

Romance Strange Secure Combination Insecurity

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Some die too young, some die too old; the precept sounds strange, but die at the right age.”

Age Young Death Dies Sound Strange

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”

Book Creativity Cutting Alive Creation Building Strange Creating Breaths Add Delicate Inward Organisms Urgency Creative Mind Overpowering Creating Music Gifted Children

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Could we know by what strange circumstances a man's genius became prepared for practical success, we should discover that the most serviceable items in his education were never entered in the bills which his father paid for.”

Knows Men Should Father Education Strange Genius Circumstances Paid Bills Prepared Practicals Items

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.”

World Change Conditions Strange Abiding Visionaries

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled.”

Sometimes Seems Purpose Waiting Results Strange All Things Method Patient Accidents Providence Employed Be Patient

Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man

Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man

“The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!”

Shows Strange Cold Moon Range Silver Shade Honey Temper Sunny Eccentric Fickle

Book:Prose and verse

Source: Prose and verse

“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.”