Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a few revolutions to go yet before we get to the bottom of it. – David Chalmers
In a strange way, I expected Russia to become more like America since the Soviet Union collapsed, but the reverse is true. America has become more like Russia: a kleptocratic society. – Gary Shteyngart
Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you’re vulnerable, you’ll feel 10 times more vulnerable. – Daniel Day-Lewis
I was at number one in Australia with both my album and my single. And then I was told I had cancer. I thought, ‘What a strange turn of events.’ – Delta Goodrem
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. – Emil Ludwig
Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don’t understand what happens when music moves you. – Michael Tippett
And it’s very strange, but I think there is something very common – not only in Celtic music – but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries. – Nobuo Uematsu
Sometimes I go to movies, and it’s just a bombardment, and I’m not entertained by them – I’m assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange. – Parker Posey
I like to watch many things, especially strange films and something recent, not just the story. – Dario Argento
I went to art school in the days when it was what you did if you didn’t want to be like everybody else. You wanted to be strange and different, and art school encouraged that. We hated the drama students – they were guys with pipes and cardigans. – Peter Capaldi
I was a huge horror fan, especially in my teenage years. Back then, there were a lot of Italian horror movies – some zombie, some just really strange movies that made no sense. I was really into shock and gore. – Chuck Hogan
I don’t see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang. – Gavin Rossdale
Gamer humor ranges all over the place. What it comes down to is taking a lot of what we see in gaming and we’re familiar with in gaming and being like, ‘OK, hold on, let’s re-examine this for a second. Isn’t this funny? Isn’t this strange? Isn’t this a little bit ridiculous?’ That’s where it is. – Freddie Wong
I lived for 30 years in the U.S., but always kept my Islamic and Iranian culture and customs… even now, western lifestyle feels strange to me. – Mohammad Javad Zarif
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, ‘I don’t understand why this is happening to me.’ There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening. – Chad Kroeger
The man who voyages strange seas must of necessity be a little unsure of himself. It is the man with the flashy air of knowing everything, who is always with it, that we should beware of. – Fred Hoyle
A reporter from ‘The Times’ wanted to arm-wrestle, and as I recall, he kept challenging me. So we went at it, and there was a pop. His arm broke. Very strange. He went into a kind of swoon. – Charles Portis
Everything Marilyn does is different from any other woman, strange and exciting, from the way she talks to the way she uses that magnificent torso. – Clark Gable
One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it. – Elmer Bernstein
It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. – David Rockefeller
It’s strange – there’s a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it’s ‘US Weekly,’ where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes. – Pete Wentz
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange. – Elias Canetti
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it. – Chris Weitz
What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship. – Matthew Lesko
