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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Strange Quotes

I have learned not to think little of any one’s belief, no matter how strange it be. I have tried to keep an open mind; and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 14. Van Helsing in reply to Mina’s warning when she gives him a copy of Jonathan’s journal from his time with Count Dracula. She says he may find the events described unbelievable. But Van Helsing’s open mind allows him to embrace new technologies and what seems like the impossible, and also helps him counter Dracula’s evil.

A fellow o’ th’ strangest mind i’ th’ world.

– William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night, Act 1, Scene 3. Sir Andrew Aguecheek, about himself.

Sometimes I read that I’m not 100 per cent Chinese, because I don’t look all that Chinese. That’s a strange one – I am Chinese.

– Godfrey Gao

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

– Henry David Thoreau

As always, there’s a couple of things in the pipeline – but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

– Hugh Dancy

It isn’t something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are ‘marked’ with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change.

– Guy Finley

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

– Henry Miller

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

– Groucho Marx

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I’m naturally quite shy. I’m a quite private person. There’s this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who’s slightly shy or self-conscious, it’s the most frightening thing you can do.

– Hannah Ware

Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.

– H. P. Lovecraft

War makes strange bedfellows.

– Helen Thomas

‘The Lair of the White Worm’ is quite a strange film. It’s difficult to be good when you’re saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

– Hugh Grant

Most accountants are strange – let’s be honest.

– Hannah Gadsby

All things must change to something new, to something strange.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The strange thing – and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial – is that wherever I am, that’s sort of home.

– Hugh Laurie

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

– Henry Rollins

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.

– Judi Dench

One role blends into the next role. I mean, there’s strange idiosyncrasies from roles that I play that I picked up that will never go away.

– Jake Gyllenhaal

There’s something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it’s taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I’ve been in silly popcorn movies – the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about – but those movies reach many more people.

– Jesse Eisenberg

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

– Jaime Lerner

It’s where you come from that’s the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.

– Irvine Welsh

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn’t simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

– Jacques Derrida

The thing that’s strange about Frank Vincent is that actors of his quality are usually big stars.

– Irwin Winkler

I did have strange ideas during certain periods of time.

– John Forbes Nash, Jr.

I don’t get sent anything strange like underwear. I get sent cookies.

– Jennifer Aniston

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

– Jim Carrey

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

– Ivan Lendl

Beauty can come in strange forms.

– James Dyson

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

– Johann Sebastian Bach

How strange when an illusion dies. It’s as though you’ve lost a child.

– Judy Garland

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