Stranger Quotes

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.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.

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.

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.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

Fiction and essays can create empathy for the theoretical stranger.

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.

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.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

Everybody is just a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

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.

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

For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

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.

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

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.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.

Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.

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.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.