#strange

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#curious #dead #english #english people #few

It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment. ↗

— George Saunders

#actually #consciousness #course #create #day

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#assert #capabilities #choose #commandment #different

I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#fiction #i #i think #know #making

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? ↗

— David Schwimmer

#guys #how #i #look #mirror

More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They don't like to see an ugly lady. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#lady #like #men #more #pretty

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#chaos #going #happy #i #knowing

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#interaction #naturally #positive #relation #specific

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#distance #element #general #individuals #less

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#attributes #exhausted #get #one thing #profession