The Stranger Quotes

I throw out compliments to strangers all the time, because I would like it back at me, and do unto others.

"Couch surfing" refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of charge, unless you count being incessantly sociable as payment.

So my last image was as the first. A sleeping youth cloaked in light, who opened his eyes with a smile of recognition for someone who had never been a stranger.

A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.

I am no stranger to healthy competition-wor king hard and playing hard

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here.

I'm always diplomatic when heavily outnumbered by armed strangers.

He will deal harshly by a stranger who has not been himself often a traveller or stranger.

No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.

Praise a stranger with a few nice words and he becomes a stranger that calls you a friend.

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

When we spoke, Gene Wilder had just written a memoir called "Kiss Me Like A Stranger." The title was suggested by his late wife Gilda Radner three weeks before she died in 1989.

Dogs believe every stranger is a friend they haven't met yet. Cats wait for a proper invitation.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.

In some ways truth is stranger than fiction.

Strangers are an endangered species.

Everyone is ready to speak ill of a stranger.

I'm quite good, though I say it myself, at making strangers feel at ease.

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.

It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I follow these intimate connections of strangers and, surprise!, end up finding even myself in the work at some point.

At night we are all strangers, even to ourselves.

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

Do you miss Susie?" Because it was dark, because Ruth was facing away from her,because Ruth was almost a stranger, Lindsey said what she felt. "More than anyone will ever know.

When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Comedy and I were never strangers, it's just that I was doing a lot of drama.

I like test screenings. I like to see a movie with an audience of strangers. I think it tells you a lot.

I'm no stranger to a bit of sexist backlash, but I was surprised by the level of vicious and misogynist hate I received.

Grace arrived, like the big, loopy stitches with which a grandmotherly stranger might baste your hem temporarily.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

Clare seems so pleased with the idea of me as a pirate that she forgets that I am Stranger Danger.

Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a stranger as a house guest in your skin.

I don't go out with strangers," I said. "Good thing I do. I'll pick you up at five.

In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

At first it seems obvious, but the more you think about it the stranger the deductions from this axiom seem to become; in the end you cease to understand what is meant by it.

You may never understand How the stranger is inspired For he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong.

Walkin' through the leaves fallin' from the trees, Feelin' like a stranger nobody sees.

Last night I danced with a stranger, but she just reminded me you were the one.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.