#stranger

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

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#completely #discarded #else #fundamental #life

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

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it's so much fun. ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#comedy #four #friends #fun #get

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

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals. ↗

— Peter Singer

#ethics #face #family #good #good life

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#live #longer #men #strangers

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#autograph #grinning #just #know #something