#stranger

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#come #even #even now #hate #i

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#bed #bodies #clothes #coming #each

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine. ↗

— David Letterman

#cab #complete #engine #get #guy

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#friends #i #makes #more #people

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. ↗

— James McGreevey

#american politics #benighted #career #closet #compromises

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#among #apart #being #god #marked

Most people don't walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don't think it's healthy to know what faceless strangers who you'll never meet say about you. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#around #faceless #healthy #i #know

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#career #colin #evenings #fun #hopefully

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#criticism #friend #hard #honest #particularly