#strange

The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening. ↗

— Brenda Blethyn

#been #case #films #hollywood #i

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#college #did #generation #get #go

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#allows #central #device #express #feelings

Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is to make a hole in one with you. ↗

— Fred Allen

#estimation #hole #life #make #men

If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#back #become #books #could #death

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#blessings #bound #certainly #christian #duty

You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#colours #costumes #everything #find #first

Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#afford #any #commendation #contempt #due

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#chaos #clarity #confusion #denial #enough

Polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing and solving our real problems. ↗

— Martha Beck

#appearance #discussing #facing #lies #many