Strange Quotes

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar.

It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.

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.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of.

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

My mother is a very strange woman... She doesn't understand me in the least and doesn't love me much either. If she had either love or understanding she would be prepared to make sacrifices.

To eat the boiled head of a pig sliced like salami is very strange. It may seem cutting edge, but it's actually a lot older than any of the other traditional salami.

The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange.

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

I love strange things; my favorite movies are weird, eclectic, and intriguing.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

An honest observer of the evolution of conditions in Egypt would discover that terrorism is an alien phenomenon, strange to our values and heritage.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

It's been strange and weird watching the other girls at the U.S. Olympic trials just because I was training to be out there myself.

One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.