Strange Quotes

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity-and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.

That small word Force, they make a barber's block, ready to put on meanings most strange and various, fit to shock pupils of Newton. The phrases of last century in this linger to play tricks, Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix. Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still cling by their titles, and from them creep, as entozoa will, into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear one small equation; and Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

I'm a strange mixture of my mother's curiosity; my father, who grew up the son of the manse in a Presbyterian family, who had a tremendous sense of duty and responsibility; and my mother's father, who was always in trouble with gambling debts.

If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations.

I speak to him a lot about getting this thing done. And I always hang up and say, well, that was a nice phone call. And then missiles are launched into Kyiv or some other city. And I said, strange. And after that happens three or four times, you say the talk doesn't mean anything.

With all of her dazzling achievements and stupendous material strides, America has maintained its strange ambivalence on the question of racial justice.

Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills.

A prodigious event had happened. The monotony of toil and of the daily round was suddenly broken. Everything was strange and new. War aroused the primordial instincts of races born of strife. Adventure beckoned to her children. A larger, nobler life seemed to be about to open upon the world. But it was, in fact, only Death.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

The Night is young & full of rest, I can't describe the way she's dress'd, She'll pander to some strange requests, Anything that you suggest, Anything to please her guest.

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Do you believe me if I tell you that even though I've traveled the world, I didn't really see anything? Strange, isn't it? Sometimes, we call that the price to pay.

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

When you're around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it's not strange, it's just Gaga.

A song is like a dream, and you have to make it come true. They're like strange countries that you have to enter. You can write a song anywhere, in a railroad compartment, on a boat, on horseback -- it helps to be moving. Sometimes people who have the greatest talent for writing songs never write any because they are not moving.

I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face.