But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
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W.H. DAVIES What is this life so full of care,
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BENJAMIN MCKENZIE People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange.
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ERICH FROMM 'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
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STEVEN MAGEE I can write that one off, ... as just something strange that happened.
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GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con...
LAURA VANDERVOORT Yet habit--strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?
HERMAN MELVILLE But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death. The strange
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ADELAIDE CRAPSEY The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled...
G. K. CHESTERTON The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled th...
G. K. CHESTERTON If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange
PAULO COELHO As the geometer intently seeks
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DANTE ALIGHIERI My cane is now of me. I want it by my side. And I always will, even if one strange day I no longer n...
JOSHUA PRAGER If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I...
ELON MUSK I have met some very strange people and some very strange cats - and I'm not talking about jazz ...
ROBIN LEACH being weird is not so strange
LOESJE Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.
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DEAN STANLEY It was strange and amusing...and, honestly, a bit embarrassing...to realize how much being near Bell...
STEPHENIE MEYER I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacock...
RITA DOVE People are crazy and times are strange ... I used to care but things have changed
BOB DYLAN In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH Near, so very near to God,
Nearer I cannot be;
For in the person of his Son
I am as near...
CATESBY PAGET It's so strange. Sad, and strange. Nothing has changed there in all this time.
SHARI LAWRENCE So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to ...
CHARLES DICKENS They were celebrities, and if anyone thought it was strange that these two women who were so strange...
FRANK GALATI But how did you know where we were?" Annabeth asked.
Advanced planning, my dear. I figure...
RICK RIORDAN ... If we don't tell strange stories, when something strange happens we won't believe it.
SHANNON HALE Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball an...
DARREN CRISS I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welco...
HARRIET TUBMAN There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if ...
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LORD BYRON The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Den...
DAVE BARRY The people are so nice, but this place is really strange to me. The air is different. My nose feels ...
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EL DEBARGE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
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JOHNNY DEPP There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anot...
RENE DESCARTES There is nothing so strange or so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or anoth...
RENE DESCARTES But I know what it’s like when everyone seems to look at you as if you’re a strange creature imp...
EMORY R. FRIE Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
ROBIN MORGAN As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into heads...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new -- and near the end. The milestones into head...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Sometimes I feel as if there's an explanation to my life that continues to escape me; that I've miss...
WILL WEAVER But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everyt...
SAMUEL PEPYS I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was...
HARRIET TUBMAN Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
ANI DIFRANCO It's a really strange one.
DENNIS NEBRICH Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who wou...
BRAM STOKER People are strange . . .
JIM MORRISON Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so stra...
CHOW YUN FAT It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
EMILY BRONTë Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I ...
W. H. AUDEN It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It is really strange, but very exciting.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG In those whom I like, I can find no common denominator; in those whom I love I can: they all make me...
W. H. AUDEN I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.
DAVID LYNCH When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.
THOMAS HARDY We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, str...
ARTHUR MACHEN Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDY If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many s...
BRIAN ENO Where are you and I'm so sorryI cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonightI need somebody and alwaysthis s...
BLINK 182 If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but com...
JACQUES DERRIDA There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
DANIEL WEBSTER Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.
FRANK DANE The world is so strange that maybe it’s perfectly logical.
BETH LISICK I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come ...
TODD RUNDGREN Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?"
"Funny haha or funny strange?"
James handed them ba...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER This first component is going to look very strange and it is going to drive a little strange.
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ROBIN MORGAN Some tiny creature, mad with wrath, is coming nearer on the path.
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W. H. AUDEN O for doors to be open and an invite with gilded edges / To dine with Lord Lobcock and Count Asthma.
W. H. AUDEN I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of ...
W. H. AUDEN It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction ...
W. H. AUDEN The nightingales are sobbing in / The orchards of our mothers, / And hearts that we broke long ago /...
W. H. AUDEN The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very dif...
W. H. AUDEN If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.
W. H. AUDEN If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am a...
W. H. AUDEN Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
W. H. AUDEN Look, stranger, at this island now / The leaping light for your delight discovers.
W. H. AUDEN Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience...
W. H. AUDEN Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in ...
W. H. AUDEN Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good
W. H. AUDEN lay your faithless head upon my arm
W. H. AUDEN Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384 [John] Wycliffe's doctrine of "dominion founded i...
W. H. SUMMERS Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still, For poetry makes nothing happen
W. H. AUDEN I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain ...
W. H. AUDEN Hunger allows no choice, To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die
W. H. AUDEN Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator; but among those whom I love, I ...
W. H. AUDEN Five minutes on even the nicest mountain / Is awfully long.
W. H. AUDEN The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar, and is shocked by the unexpected: the eye, on the oth...
W. H. AUDEN 'In headaches and in worry Vaguely life leaks away,And Time will have his fancy To-morrow or to-day.
W. H. AUDEN Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy
W. H. AUDEN A doctor, like anyone else who has to deal with human beings, each of them unique, cannot be a scien...
W. H. AUDEN