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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.

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange.

Quotes by Todd Barry

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

Quotes by Tionne Watkins

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

Quotes by Timothy Morton

I always liked strange characters.

Quotes by Tim Burton

Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.

Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

Quotes by Thomas R. Cech

She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.

Quotes by Terri Irwin

It's a strange thing we do as actors. I'm walking out the door, and I'll say, 'O.K., honey, I'm off to take my clothes off.'

Quotes by Teddy Sears

In December 2010, we embarked on a slightly strange tour of India. We played every kind of gig you could imagine over two weeks, from sports bars to hotel bars to a beautiful outdoor amphitheatre.

Quotes by Ted Dwane

Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.

Quotes by Tamsin Greig

It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.

Quotes by T. S. Eliot

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

Quotes by T Bone Burnett

I have always loved octopuses. No sci-fi alien is so startlingly strange.

Quotes by Sy Montgomery

In 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell,' I wanted to create the most convincing story of magic and magicians that I could.

Quotes by Susanna Clarke

I must have been a very strange child. I was very pretentious. Like Adrian Mole.

Quotes by Sue Townsend

Film is a strange thing.

Quotes by Steve Zahn

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

Quotes by Steve Toltz

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

Quotes by Steve Forbert

Mine has been a pretty strange path.

Quotes by Steve Carr

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

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.