Strange Quotes

There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

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?

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Our family was too strange and weird for even Santa Claus to come visit... Santa, who was jolly - but, let's face it, he was also very judgmental.

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

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

I come from a pretty strange family.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

That is a strange phenomenon, people pretending to be other people.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

Heinlein never had a best-seller. Even, I think, with Stranger in a Strange Land, I don't think it was actually on the New York Times best seller list.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

Isn't it strange that its easier to be gentle with the feelings of people we care less about than those of our children, whom we love so much?

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

I'm not really that private of a person. I live in a small town and I'm very neighborly. I go out to dinner just about four nights a week and sit and talk to people. I'm not that private, so it's not that strange to do an interview and try to share a little bit of your life.