Strangeness Quotes
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The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
— Matthew Bourne
You are like a cloud
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese
Glimpsed between the branches. In your eyes there shines
The strangeness of a sky that isn't yours. — Cesare Pavese
Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If instead of a figure you put the shadow only of a person, you have found an original starting point, that strangeness of which you have calculated.
— Paul Gauguin
Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.
— Antoine Volodine
You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
— Audrey Niffenegger
What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.
— Carrie Brownstein
If there's one thing I have learned it's that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange
— Sarah-Kate Lynch
Develop your legitimate strangeness.
— Rene Char
Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.
— Charles Baudelaire
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
— Charles Baudelaire
there is no beauty without some strangeness.
— Edgar Allan Poe
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
— Lynn Barber
We read the weird tales in newspapers to crowd out the even weirder stuff inside us.
— Alain De Botton
HIGH STRANGENESS: 2/10. Aside from mind-control rays affecting one out of every thirty Americans, this isn't all that strange.
— Monte Cook
She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.
— Stephanie Kuehn
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them.
— Julia Quinn
In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.
— Robbie Williams
and you and I left
with the same old question
the sheer unspeakable strangeness
of being here at all — Robin Williamson
with the same old question
the sheer unspeakable strangeness
of being here at all — Robin Williamson
We will revel in hardships and welcome strangeness.
— Dan Simmons
Everyone's childhood is strange. It prepares you for the strangeness of adulthood." Riley
— Janet Evanovich
Oh, stop it, I tell myself. Stop looking for links and meaning and explanations. What did De Chirico say? The world is a museum of strangeness.
— Kirsty Eagar
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ...
— Jim Morrison
The strangeness and absurdity of these replies arise from the fact that modern history, like a deaf man, answers questions no one asks.
— Leo Tolstoy
Life brings with it strangeness and surprises and upsets
— Patricia Cornwell
All forms of madness, bizarre habits, awkwardness in society, general clumsiness, are justified in the person who creates good art.
— Roman Payne
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
— Jonathan Franzen
I'm most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That's my forte.
— Mary Ellen Mark
I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness.
— Carew Papritz
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
— Douglas Adams
(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.
— Robert M. Pirsig
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
— Sara Genn
I had melancholy thoughts...
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place. — William Wordsworth
a strangeness in my mind,
A feeling that I was not for that hour,
Nor for that place. — William Wordsworth
You have to admit that this is a very strange life. If you don't admit it, then you have a very high threshold for strangeness, and more power to you.
— Art Hochberg
But once he got over the astounding strangeness of his new life (it took him about a week), he suddenly realized he was simply on a long holiday.
— Milan Kundera
She and I seem to be more alike than not, acutely aware of the strangeness of the world and charmed by it's mysteries.
— Dean Koontz
The strangeness that made everything sparkle came from me. Worlds rose out of my bottomless perplexity
— Cesar Aira
Sometimes I think that's all love is. Understanding, smoothing away your strangeness. Making you part of the world, not separate from it.
— Alexis Hall
This is the paradoxical responsibility of the reader: to replenish the strangeness of the novel by making connections with the familiar.
— Norma Field
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
— Walter Hagen
She would take him to faraway lands to observe foreign ways, so he could get closer to the strangeness within himself.
— Fatema Mernissi
The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood - the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.
— Maurice Sendak
And as for that strangeness in your gut, that comes from you, not the Lord. When you were a child you had worms. As likely as not you have them again.
— Flannery O'Connor
One must picture everything in the world as an enigma, and live in the world as if in a vast museum of strangeness.
— Giorgio De Chirico
I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.
— Allison Tolman
Only think a moment that we are here now, and that that was then, and it has come to this, and how odd, odd, odd it is!
— John Crowley
When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
— Ciaran Hinds
That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.
— Gregory Maguire
Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep,
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir
Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow,
And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. — Edwin Muir
Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.
— Rose Macaulay
Familiar vs. Strange [10w]
The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality. — Beryl Dov
The sexiest part of strangeness is its most familiar quality. — Beryl Dov
And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness — Ezra Pound
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness — Ezra Pound
It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth
— Flannery O'Connor
My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.
— Anthony Doerr
In the strangeness of the brightening day it seemed presumptuous that with this feeble, broken instrument of his mind he had ever tried to think.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He held her hand and shook his head. "They're inside, part of us by now. They are us. Where can we escape?
— Greg Bear
The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself.
— William Least Heat-Moon
The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
— Georg Trakl
You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
— Jean Lorrain
Will you tolerate
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul? — Tyler Knott Gregson
the strangeness inside of me,
the quirks of my soul? — Tyler Knott Gregson
To live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth - not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.
— T.L. Rese
My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
— David Allee
Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.
— Jason Schwartzman
An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
— Jackson Pollock
It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.
— Miguel Syjuco
The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia
— Edgar Allan Poe
He understood that in walking to atone for the mistakes he had made, it was also his journey to accept the strangeness of others.
— Rachel Joyce
To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
— Trevor McDonald
I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
— Warren Ellis
As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
— Nathan Lane
Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.
— Dan Simmons
I think, actually, everyone starts out with some strange in them. It's just whether or not you decide to keep it.
— Katherine Rundell
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
— Charles Baudelaire
In my family strange is relative.
— Kate Rockland
Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes. They were made of kindness, and silver.
— Markus Zusak
People are strange . . .
— Jim Morrison