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“A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.”

Firsts Business Strange Sight Obvious Analysis Commodity Metaphysical Corny Theological Strange Things Subtlety Niceties Trivial Things

Book:Marx Selections

Source: Marx Selections

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places.”

Looks Seems Rooms Strange Familiar Aliens Hotel Strange Things Hotel Rooms Really Weird

Author:Moby

“A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.”

Looks Today Past Memories Brain Strange Tomorrow Paint Painter Backwards Our Memories Strange Things History And Memory

Author:Grandma Moses

“You always end up getting involved in things because of, you know, the strange things your life brings you into contact with.”

Knows Ends Strange Involved Contact Strange Things Because Of You

Author:Edward Norton

“The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.”

Ifs Kind Together Past Strange Jazz Rough Strange Things Past Present Past Present And Future

Author:Ben Okri

“Imagine people calling you to find out if you're dead. I've led a real crazy life at times, and I've had many strange things happen to me, but that was one of the strangest.”

People Ifs Real Happens Imagine Crazy Strange Calling Things Happen Strange Things Crazy Life

Author:Richard Pryor

“If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing.”

Ifs Feels Mean Asks Strange Regard Ask Me Interviews Strange Things Clumsy Mean Words

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.”

Strange Negative Violent Regimes Publicity Strange Things Glare

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.”

Night Literature Destiny Worry Strange Wind Window Wings Blow Strange Things My Destiny

Book:Ever the Winds of Chance

Source: Ever the Winds of Chance

“There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.”

Thinking Strange Odd Abraham Strange Things

Author:Steven Spielberg

“Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.”

Thinking Firsts May Long Together Lasts Turns Literature Brain Strange Horror Let Me Mad Nerves Accurate Strain Vans Strange Things Van Helsing

Book:Dracula

Source: Dracula

“Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.”

People Knows Giving Suffering Humanity Security Strange Prison Cells Collectives Dogma Strange Things Prison Cells

Book:Stillness Speaks

Source: Stillness Speaks

“I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.”

People Said Wanted Literature Strange Actresses They Said Strange Things Great Literature

Author:Julie Walters

“Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.”

Way Heart Mean Persons Moving Grief Missing Strange Rivers Optimistic More Time Bereavement Missing Someone Strange Things Optimistic Person

Author:Michelle Williams

“Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right.”

Strange Becoming Strange Things Becoming Famous

Author:Carnie Wilson

“A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.”

People Knows Economy Strange Strange Things Advocating Hacking Computer Hacking

Author:Steve Wozniak

“What she did have were Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.”

Numbers Strange Chocolate Cake Flavor Frogs Beans Strange Things Gum Pumpkin Wands Cauldrons Pasties

Author:J. K. Rowling

“What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.”

Alive Strange Spring Springtime Strange Things Cherries Spring Season Spring Time Think Spring Spring Day Spring Inspirational First Day Of Spring Welcome Spring Cherry Blossom

Author:Kobayashi Issa

“It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.”

Knows Believe Parent Strange Strange Things

Book:The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

“It is a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.”

Giving Time Strange Habit Dread Harry Potter Slow Down Potters Strange Things Speeding Concept Of Time Harry Potter Series Down Time Harry Potter Birthday Speeding Up

Author:J. K. Rowling

“You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.”

Ifs Needs Body Order Grows Cases Strange Wings Evolve Strange Things Tentacles Spleen

Book:The Gum Thief: A Novel

Source: The Gum Thief: A Novel

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