“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
“Watch out for dark streets in big cities because there are a lot of strange beings that hang out there at night, let alone the people. Don't you remember anything from your other lives?” PeopleBigsRememberNightDarkCitiesWatchesStreetsStrangeLosingMysticismHanging OutBig CitiesLosing Power Author:Frederick Lenz
“Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.” SometimesFacesWatchesObjectsStrangePersonalitySightContemplatingTowersStatuesEdificeInanimate Objects Book:Ninety-three Source: Ninety-three
“Im an expert on surfing the channels, so Im always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.” I CanAbleHoursWatchesStrangeExpertsConferencesSurfing Author:Rafael Vinoly
“Night Watch itself is a very Russian movie. Its impossible to imagine this kind of movie somewhere else: a movie with a depressing ending, a lot of inexplicable storylines, strange characters. Its a Russian reflection of American film culture.” KindCharacterFilmNightCultureWatchesImagineImpossibleStrangeReflectionDepressingSomewhere ElseInexplicableStorylineAmerican Film Author:Timur Bekmambetov
“I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.” WatchesStrangeDependsStoresClock Author:Ben Katchor
“People can't live with themselves much longer. The planet cannot live with humans much longer! We have the weaponry, destruction of the planet, pollution, destruction of forests, countless manifestations of humans using their intelligence in the service of the dysfunction, the madness. It's a strange juxtaposition. Humans are intelligent, but if you look at history or even watch TV, they're also incredibly stupid.” PeopleIfsHumansLooksWatchesStupidStrangePlanetsTvsDestructionMadnessIntelligentForestsManifestationPollutionDysfunctionJuxtapositionWeaponry Author:Eckhart Tolle
“And yet we constantly reclaim some part of that primal spontaneity through the youngest among us, not only through their sorrow and anger but simply through everyday discoveries, life unwrapped. To see a child touch the piano keys for the first time, to watch a small body slice through the surface of the water in a clean dive, is to experience the shock, not of the new, but of the familiar revisited as though it were strange and wonderful.” FirstsChildrenBodyWaterWatchesWonderfulChildhoodStrangeKeysSorrowDiscoveryFirst TimeExperienceCleanEverydaySurfaceFamiliarPianoShockSpontaneityPrimalPiano Keys Author:Anna Quindlen
“Nightmares are a strange thing. Your worst fear is sometimes something you enjoy thinking about, for some strange reason. I don't know why that is, but it's some kind of fantasy that people play out. "What would I do to protect my children? I'd do anything." And then, you watch it play out. I'm petrified of such a thing.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindChildrenSometimesReasonPlayEnjoyWatchesFantasyWorstStrangeProtectMy ChildrenNightmareStrange ThingsWorst Fear Author:Ethan Hawke
“I can watch elephants (and elephants alone) for hours at a time, for sooner or later the elephant will do something very strange... There is mystery behind that masked gray visage, and ancient life force, delicate and mighty, awesome and enchanted, commanding the silence ordinarily reserved for mountain peaks, great fires, and the sea.” InspirationalI CanMotivationalForceHoursAnimalBehindsSilenceWatchesFireMysterySeaStrangeMountainAncientGrayDelicateSooner Or LaterElephantsReservedEnchantedMountain Peaks Book:African Silences Source: African Silences
“I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.” LittlesDoneBitsWatchesStrangeProudLuckyLittle BitCringe Author:Christopher Walken
“Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.” WayFeelsMindFilmYoungSpiritHouseWatchesSeeingStrangeBrotherHotSupposed To BeMy BrotherMind BlowingGreat FilmRobocop Author:Edgar Wright
“It's a very strange experience to watch yourself in a movie anyway. I most frequently don't do it, but if I was going to do it, I would do it in a private way, not at a public screening at a film festival, which is just an overwhelming experience.” IfsWayFilmWatchesStrangeOverwhelmingFestivalsScreeningFilm Festivals Author:Jesse Eisenberg