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Strange Quotes

Some things stay strange no matter how you look at them.

One line reflects on how strange it is that audiences forget actors are simply performing roles that have nothing to do with who they really are, while another turns to astrophysics, calling the properties of pulsars and quasars a genuine scientific challenge. See Know quotes for related reflections.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Quotes by Agnetha Faltskog

In the seventeenth century, a French missionary in Canada reported a 'strange legend' circulating among the Hurons. They told of a monster with a 'horn' that could pierce anything, even rock.

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some...

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

Always Quotes

Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.

Quotes by Adlai Stevenson I

That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.

Quotes by Adam Yauch

When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. It's strange: people have asked me what my schedule is and what is my process like, and I can't even answer it....

Quotes by Adam Rapp

Fame is a very strange animal.

Quotes by Adam Lambert

When you bring God into politics, very strange things happen.

Quotes by Adam Curtis

Know Quotes

Independence day is an interesting time to reflect on our strange fealty to institutions that the British left us, including those that were explicitly set up to be used against us.

Quotes by Abhijit Banerjee

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as...

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.

Quotes by Aaron Peirsol

I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.

Quotes by A. N. Wilson

A cravat is the only item of named after Croatians. Balkan mercenaries were brought to Paris by Louis XIV. Their strange and exotic attire attracted the French bon hommes, who were wearing formal ruffs, and who immediately took to the...

Quotes by A. A. Gill

Life Quotes

Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.

Quotes by Yayoi Kusama

My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.

Quotes by Yanis Varoufakis

I'm not unusual; it's the others who are strange.

Quotes by Xavier Niel

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Quotes by Winifred Holtby

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

Like Quotes

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Quotes by William Henry Hudson

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the tone of the "Strange" quotes collection?
Wide-ranging — from acting and performance, to astrophysics, to a wry philosophical one-liner, to a pointed real-world political statement.
Is there a quote about acting and personal identity?
Yes: "I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally" — reflecting on the gap between performance and personal identity.
Is there a science-related quote here?
Yes, about astrophysics: "the strange properties of the pulsars and quasars, and perhaps also the gravitational waves, can be considered as a challenge" — using "strange" in the sense of scientifically puzzling. See Know quotes for more on the theme of understanding the unknown.
What's the short, quotable line about the world being strange?
"It's a strange world. Let's keep it that way" — a compact, almost mischievous embrace of oddity rather than a complaint about it.
Is there a politically charged quote in this collection?
One is a sharp, first-person statement responding to being simultaneously accused of terrorism and asked to help fight it: "It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!" No speaker is identified in the source, and this page presents it strictly as that individual's own contested characterization of their situation, not as a fact this page endorses or verifies.

A few quotes touch on strange contradictions in real-world situations, and the simplest line just shrugs the world off as odd and hopes it never becomes any less so. Browse Life quotes and Like quotes for more.