The Stranger Quotes

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

The future is going to be stranger and more various and more dynamic than anything people can imagine now. We will be extraordiarily tested. I wish us the best of luck!

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

I admire President Obama's ability to trust strangers.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner.

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Mine is not a smiling face. Strangers on the street always say, Smile! But my muscles do not naturally go there.

I'm a stranger wherever I go, but I'm happy.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

What does Christmas mean if we can't encourage small children to sit on a stranger's lap?

Everybody starts out as strangers.

Strangers who have seen Shaw face to face are wont to report their surprise at his gentleness and consideration, his willingness to listen and his complete lack of pose.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.

Anger is one of the most intimate of emotions and to expose it to strangers is one of the most stupid and sickening things to do. Never get angry with strangers because they are strangers.

We are like oil and vinegar most of the time. But when you shake us up real good, the combination is heavenly.~ Anna Segee, The Stranger in Her Bed

And I certainly like being on a plane, next to a stranger, having conversations that you'd never otherwise have. You're unplugged, your phone doesn't work, you're not online.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers.

I can't go to a bad movie by myself. What, am I gonna make sarcastic remarks to strangers?

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

I should clarify that anyone that goes onstage and makes strangers laugh is insane. So I am insane.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

Never floss a stranger.

I hate walking up to strangers.

I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.

I'm aware of being a stranger, an outsider, and that's always an advantage for an artist. It means I can see from the inside and the outside. I have that double vision.

Performers may play in the studio, but they need to go out and tour every once in a while to keep their edge, or a performer who is a stranger may be asked to "sit in" on a set.

An Englishman hath three qualities, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his friend, nor to be dared by any.

Let no stranger intrude here, no invader trespass. This was ours, and this we would defend.

The Gorean is suspicious of the stranger, particularly in the vicinity of his native walls. Indeed, in Gorean the same word is used for both stranger and enemy.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

A dog is a bond between strangers.

Nell Zink is a writer of extraordinary talent and range. Her work insistently raises the possibility that the world is larger and stranger than the world you think you know.

My horses understand me tolerably well; I converse with them at least four hours every day. They are strangers to bridle or saddle; they live in great amity with me, and friendship of each other.

Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers

Occasionally, family members treat each other with less courtesy and kindness than they do acquaintances or even strangers.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

I suppose a child's first obligation is to become a stranger to his parents.

I prefer to act with friends. I mean you start off as strangers always with someone, but to really find a relationship that you enjoy personally and creatively, it's fantastic.

Did you ever look in the mirror And see a stranger standing there? Did you ever drive for miles and miles And wonder how on earth you got yourself there?