It’s strange; when I was younger and people would ask, ‘Where are you from?’, I’d say, ‘West Africa’, which was odd because I’m obviously not African, but it was my home. – William Boyd
Agatha Christie never wrote books that just started with a dead body, and a ‘Let’s find out who the murderer is’, which is kind of mysterious but not that mysterious. She always started with, ‘How can this thing be happening; isn’t it strange?’ – Sophie Hannah
I think that’s so strange, because they do know that we’re all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally. – Werner Klemperer
When a person earns money, it makes sense if he spends it himself. It’s a shame when a person earns money, and some strange funds spend it. – Sergey Galitsky
My first encounter with Marx’s writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74. – Yanis Varoufakis
Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they’re very lumpy, very big individual units, but they’re commodities. – Wilbur Ross
One of the more depressing things about reading your fiction 25 years later, or 10 years later, is you realize the only things going on are things you made go on. Strange and interesting and new and wonderful things don’t happen. It’s the book you wrote; that’s all. – Samuel R. Delany
Being a Scotsman, I wear a skirt quite a lot, but we’re allowed. I have an incredibly loud Hawaiian shirt that’s pink and a particularly disgusting turquoise, but I just wear it on days when I’m in a strange mood. – Sean Biggerstaff
What in heaven’s name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I’ll bet lots of grandmothers do it. – Sally Rand
It’s always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different. – Toby Jones
Artists, actors, people like that, they live in a very strange bubble of their own. They’re mollycoddled; they’re highly privileged. – Steve Wynn
It’s such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you’d just have a screen test, and they’d say, ‘Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,’ and you’d just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever. – Vinessa Shaw
It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down. – Van Morrison
There is a strange impulse in many to protect Bible characters and to use them as inspiration… as if sanctification happens as a result of emulation. – Tullian Tchividjian
