Strange Quotes

Violence is rather a strange phenomenon that can be compared to fire, once out of control it’s loyal to no one, not even to the person who started it.

~ Drexel Deal

One of the strangest phenomena of our time, and one that will probably be a matter of astonishment to our decedents, is that doctrine which is founded upon this triple hypothesis: the radical passiveness of mankind, -the omnipotence of the law, -the infallibility of the legislature: this is the sacred symbol of the party that proclaims itself exclusively democratic.

~ Frédéric Bastiat

I value my privacy, and if sometimes my actions seem strange or arbitrary or capricious, I do not want them challenged.

~ George R.r. Martin

Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Humans are very strange. When you need a hug, they throw you away, when you need condolence , they insult you, and when you need love, they betray you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Once, I ordered two thousand lady bugs from the local garden center and set them loose in the atrium. I sprinkled marigold seeds in the ficus planters and put gold fish in the lobby fountain. These are things I did with no consequences, no repercussions. My nineteen detentions were for smart answers and missed homework. There is no equivalent punishment for making the world a stranger place.

~ Brenna Yovanoff

The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular and the pictures on the wall more one-dimensional. She remembered somebody saying that at night we are all strangers, even to ourselves, and this struck her as being true.

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a “discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

~ Subrahmanijan Chandrasekhar

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.

~ R.x. Bird

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from time to time making an effort to shake off the anaesthetic. What is the best way of countering the sluggish habitutation brought about by our gradual crawl from babyhood? We can't actually fly to another planet. But we can recapture that sense of having just tumbled out to life on a new world by looking at our own world in unfamiliar ways.

~ Richard Dawkins

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways.

~ Yann Martel

But the nightmare was a strange comfort to me; in it, I found a sense of escape, and were it possible to go live in that nightmare, I would have, bizzare though that may sound.

~ M.d. Elster

The pupils were black as like every other human being's. But at the fringe of the pupils were thin heliotrope rings. Radiating from the rings were mauve and lilac swirls that swam in a plum hue. The cilia of the irises were amet

~ Deepika Kumaaraguru

If love is a flame, I am an inferno...

~ Lillian Strange

When you are in the company of lunatics, behave like a lunatic. When you are in the company of intelligentsias, speak with brilliance...that is how a chameleon behaves, the territory changes it, and it adapts to the changes.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Watch out for the average--they're usually hiding something big.

~ James St. James

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

~ Harold Robbins

Peculiar isn't it, that even melancholic reminiscences of our past seem more alluring than our present.

~ Giftson Ruphus

The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

~ Johann Joachim Becher

Wendy’s house, unlike many in Cape Breton, had three floors, along with a basement and attic. Aside from Wendy’s bedroom, there was a laundry room. The dirty water in the sink would rush from the washer hose, bubbling up, threatening to overflow, but it never did. Next-door was a motel with a neon sign that read in turquoise and pink, “We have the best rates in town!”, but the ‘E’ in ‘rates’ kept flickering on and off day and night so that every few seconds it would switch to, “We have the best rats in town!

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

When the north wind blew across the tar ponds, voices were carried away.

~ Jonathan Campbell

This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation would be proud to see you at the height of its feast, such that any holy dervish would weep and call you his devotion.I think that is very strange—All things are strange which are worth knowing.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

What up you guys, I'm back!

~ Jackson Lanzing

It is reasonable to think that if you spend your days indoors under artificial lights, staring at a screen, sitting in computer electromagnetic interference (EMI) fields and exposed to radio waves, that you may eventually develop a strange form of radiation sickness.

~ Steven Magee

There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.

~ Shannon L. Alder

When you're out in the wilderness and get back to base camp only to discover sleeping bag turndown service….that's no chocolate on the pillow

~ Josh Stern

Come Hell or High Water usually depends on the kind of plug you use in the bath tub

~ Josh Stern

If you know how to open doors with just a smile, you must need your teeth capped every six months

~ Josh Stern

If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator

~ Josh Stern

The only difference between me and a madman is that he has the certification

~ Josh Stern

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it

~ Josh Stern

Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel!

~ Erich Maria Remarque

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you're swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water's deeper than you think and there's nothing there

~ Julia Gregson

Those times when someone you thought was your friend talks about you behind your back really hurt. Even if you act like you don't care, deep inside, you care.

~ Zoey-Rose Hawthorne

Philosophers and psychiatrists should explain why it is that we mathematicians are in the habit of systematically erasing our footsteps. Scientists have always looked askance at this strange habit of mathematicians, which has changed little from Pythagoras to our day.

~ Gian-Carlo Rota

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

~ Stephanie Kuehn

And sometimes,even if everything seems unreala strange force will appeardragging you back the 'so called' real.

~ A.t. Danielle

Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further, keeping against the wooden wall of a building, just in case. His heart was pounding in his ears. Strange, isn’t it? You could be in hundreds of fights, but everyone always seemed like the first time. A million different things could happen, go completely wrong. Then it might well be his last. Where is he? Which building?

~ Christina Engela

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez