Stranger Quotes

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

I grew up listening to Queen. They were no stranger to throwing in the unexpected and something a little more dramatic.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's 13, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives you not a moment's peace.

Never floss with a stranger.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.

Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that.

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor of stories, and then people clamour for you to make speeches and tell them what you think about the world.

You don't need a rope to pinch a stranger's butt.

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence.

The man in the street is always a stranger.

We couldn't be making as much money, if we had to deal with stranger behaviour. And right now, anybody who slows down our economic productivity, off they go. We have a place for them, the psychiatric institution. That's the main thing, they slow things down.

No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman.

When you meet a stranger, look at his shoes. Keep your money in your shoes.

The thing that influenced me most in relation to 'Nanny McPhee' were the Westerns I watched with my father. All the Spaghetti Westerns; all the Virginians; all the High Chaparrals. Because if you think about the form, it's a stranger from out of town.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

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.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

I not only lived physically away from my native land, but the values and critical judgments of those closest to me became stranger and stranger.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.

My mother is a realist, and she's had biological and adoptive children, and she said it's no different: No matter what, they're putting a stranger into your arms. You don't know them yet.