Welcome to our curated collection of Strange Thing Quotes! In the realm of human experience, there exist phenomena that defy conventional explanation, events that leave us pondering the mysteries of existence, and occurrences that challenge our understanding of the world. From the enigmatic workings of the universe to the peculiarities of human behavior, the spectrum of strange things encompasses a wide array of fascinating subjects.
Throughout history, philosophers, scientists, artists, and everyday individuals have grappled with the inexplicable, seeking to unravel the secrets behind the strange and the unknown. Whether it be the peculiarities of the human mind, the inexplicable occurrences in nature, or the mysteries lurking in the cosmos, these quotes offer insights, reflections, and sometimes even more questions than answers.
Below, you’ll find a collection of thought-provoking quotes that delve into the realm of the strange and the uncanny. Feel free to draw inspiration, contemplate, or simply marvel at the mysteries of existence. These quotes can be copied, placed on images, or enhanced with stylish fonts to create visually captivating expressions of the strange and mysterious. Enjoy exploring the depths of the inexplicable!
I don’t agree with boarding school. It’s not something that I would do with my children, but I think it’s something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female. Gabriella Wilde
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom’s brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage – she’s quite shy. So it’s a strange thing because people say, ‘Oh, coming from acting parents,’ when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up. Kate Winslet
Conducting is a strange thing to teach. There are very few great conducting teachers, and most great conductors don’t teach. Look at Valery Gergiev – what he does is not teachable. A lot of it is on-the-job training, what works and what doesn’t work. Joshua Bell
I’ve always had quite long canines. It’s a very strange thing. My parents don’t have them. Luke Evans
It’s a strange thing we do as actors. I’m walking out the door, and I’ll say, ‘O.K., honey, I’m off to take my clothes off.’ Teddy Sears
The strange thing about being an actor is it’s almost a little dangerous to invest in an idea. I think once you invest in the idea of where someone is going, then you’re not fully open to being able to play the opposite of that if that’s what the character is going to do. Keiko Agena
It’s a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world. Adrian Tomine
I spent ten years in London; I trained there. But because I started in English, it kind of feels the most natural to me, to act in English, which is a strange thing. My language is Spanish; I grew up in Argentina. I speak to my family in Spanish, but if you were to ask me what language I connect with, it’d be English in some weird way. Juan Pablo Di Pace
You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing. Carla Gugino
But it’s a strange thing when people judge you because you’re not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in ‘The Dukes of Hazzard?’ I mean, hello? Joseph Fiennes
Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. Joe Moore
I had been obsessed with insects and creepy-crawlies: I used to get up at five o’clock in the morning and go out into this field behind our garden and collect insects before everyone else got up, and suddenly, all I wanted to know about was music. It just seemed a very, very strange thing. George Michael
Film is a strange thing. Steve Zahn
This is the strange thing: Dancers don’t age. Twyla Tharp
If you’re not interested in history, if you’re living for the day, you need some sort of cliche hook. I certainly don’t think of myself as a cult anything. It’s a strange thing to even consider pursuing. Leon Redbone
Film actually is a very strange thing – you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you’ve never met – and that’s weird! Sylvester McCoy
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. Grandma Moses
The strange thing about living somewhere for a couple of years and then moving on and not returning is that those locations become ghosts of themselves in your mind. Sarah Pinborough
In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And there’s this strange thing: you’re never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well. Hannah Kent
I have always felt a little homeless. It’s a strange thing. Annie Lennox
When we go out and play, a lot of people show up. It’s a strange thing to me. I don’t want to jinx it. Jani Lane
Strange thing, this television. Peter Falk
Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it’s a ‘cat.’ But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it’s a cat. So a cat it is. Javed Akhtar
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
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Karl A. Menninger
Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to me, though. I often sit there, thinking, ‘I love this, but I wouldn’t put my daughter on the stage.’ Eddie Redmayne
I think there’s an essential problem in movies and TV that I think a lot of people experience now: Audiences are way more interested in the actors than the characters that they’re playing. It’s a strange thing. Michael Angarano
A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a direct reflection of each film’s box-office performance. You will not catch him complaining that the audience ‘didn’t get’ a film; if it didn’t do well, it generally didn’t deserve to. Stephen J. Dubner
I know Nirvana’s a strange thing. It means a lot of things to a lot of people. Pat Smear
It’s a strange thing to have a successful television show because if it’s too interesting… people don’t really pay attention when they watch TV. It has to be good, but not so interesting that you really have to pay attention because people multitask. So, if a show demands your entire attention, it has a tough time making it. Kurt Fuller
It’s a strange thing that we’re actors, and we’re always playing a character, and then suddenly we’re at a place like Cannes, and we’re getting photographed as ourselves, and you’re like, ‘What do you do?’ Rachel Brosnahan
What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. Lord Byron
Death is such a strange thing. One minute you’re here and then just gone. You’d think there would be an anteroom, a place where you could be visited before you go. John Banville
I don’t know why, but if I was walking down the street, the same people who called me freak would probably ask for a picture. It’s a real strange thing. Peter Crouch
Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, ‘What a strange thing to say’ – but maybe it’s the right thing to say. Jesse Eisenberg
I actually think the whole concept of retirement is a bit stupid, so yes, I do want to do something else. There is this strange thing that just because chronologically on a Friday night you have reached a certain age… with all that experience, how can it be that on a Monday morning, you are useless? Stuart Rose
The weekend after ‘Kimmy’ started streaming on Netflix, I did notice a definite difference in people on the street recognizing you. I think that’s such a strange thing to happen. It’s like, you asked for it, you went and put yourself in the public eye, so don’t be surprised people recognize you, but that part can be strange. Ellie Kemper
‘The Strange Thing About the Johnsons’ is so disturbing but so good, because it went through a lot of things that you don’t really see, ever. Milly Shapiro
If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean – words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It’s a strange thing. Ryan Reynolds
Acting is a really strange thing to do; it’s very strange. Parker Posey
Acting is such a strange thing, it’s different for everybody. Gregory Smith
It’s a strange thing: We are an L.A.-based band and we do spend all that time in Europe and are visible over there. Yet we’ve had this lengthy career, but no one ever associates us with Los Angeles. Russell Mael
The strange thing about people considering me upbeat is that I’m really not. Russell Howard
This is the strange thing about South Africa – for all its corruption and crime, it seems to offer a stimulating sense that anything is possible. Justin Cartwright
It is a strange thing that true crime has now got entertainment value. I don’t know why people love shows about crime so much. Nick Yarris
Conducting is a strange thing to teach. Joshua Bell
Becoming a musician is a strange thing. It’s not all cupcakes and ice cream. You’re trying to master an instrument, and you sometimes can’t tell if you’re getting better. You love it, but you also hate it. Kamasi Washington
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances. Jack Osbourne
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
I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them. Keira Knightley
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. Karl Marx
It’s a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I’m aware of designers wagging their tails in my face. Jonathan Ive
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can’t even comprehend it. It’s such an illusion, it’s such a strange thing. Anthony Hopkins
That’s the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you’re remembered that way. Adam Yauch
Sometimes being old is used as an insult, which is bizarre because, if you’re lucky, that’s literally going to happen to you. It’s a strange thing to gloat about: being born recently. Ricky Gervais
Wikipedia is a strange thing. Whoever gets there first, you know, they decide. Like the picture: You can’t choose it! You can’t be like, ‘You know, I hate that picture of me doing stand-up from 2005 – that doesn’t exemplify who I am.’ You take it down, and someone puts it back up. Nick Kroll
Acting is a very strange thing. It isn’t about trying to feel, for me, it is about thinking. June Brown
It’s a very strange thing to suddenly be approached in the street and have streams of messages, and not know how to work through getting bad reviews and hate comments. It’s something that can really weigh on the mind and be quite isolating. Arlo Parks
I was leaving my violin out of a lot of songs, and that’s a strange thing to do because I’ve been playing the violin since I was 2. It’s a part of me. Adding pedals and sounds is great because I get to play the instrument I feel most comfortable on and the one I feel gives my truest expression when I’m making a solo or anything like that. Amanda Shires
Women are a strange thing. Like watches, houses, and cars, you really only need one at any moment in your life (French men disagree). Katie Hopkins
A strange thing happens to me that I’m sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I’m not ‘me’ any more. Emily Browning
My manager called me and said, ‘Hey, there’s a series at Neflix.’ I’m like, ‘Netflix? Oh, boy.’ At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It’s like going, ‘There’s a series at Blockbuster.’ Mahershala Ali
The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like. Ben Okri
It’s been a very strange thing to see the attention my clothes have gotten, just because it’s so inversely related to the amount of thought I put into them. Steve Kornacki
Physical beauty is such a strange thing. Jock Sturges
It’s a really strange thing to be doing, to go on stage and all of a sudden have bright lights and spotlights. Hope Sandoval
The strange thing – and this is one of the advantages of being incredibly shallow and superficial – is that wherever I am, that’s sort of home. Hugh Laurie
It is kind of a strange thing when you face things in your life, you know like addictions, that often you will find that you will deal with it a little bit but then you will slip back into old ways. Zoe Ball
Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‘I know.’ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas. Eckhart Tolle
QTE is a very strange thing… it really depends on what you expect from your game experience. David Cage
I don’t like comedy’ would be a really strange thing to say. Richard Bacon
The strange thing about hotel rooms is that they look familiar and seem familiar and have many of the accoutrements that seem domestic and familiar, but they are really weird, alien and anonymous places. Moby
I’ve been working for, like, 10 years now, which is a very strange thing to say when you’re 23. Lucy Boynton
When I was three or four, only football was in my head. I went 10 years, and nothing changed – only football, football, football. The strange thing is, nobody played football in my family before. Sadio Mane
The strange thing is I can’t play jigs or reels or any of that traditional Irish stuff as well as I ought to, whereas I think I have got a good ear for blues, the tonality of it and so on. Rory Gallagher
The strange thing was, when I was starting on YouTube, even the paradigm of YouTube and Internet sensation – or whatever – that didn’t really exist. So I didn’t even know that that was a thing. Bo Burnham
I’d been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there’s always a novel around. The strange thing was that after ‘Remember Me,’ there wasn’t. Melvyn Bragg
It’s a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you. Chiwetel Ejiofor
The strange thing is, if I was speaking to drama students about the thing that you should do if you’re lucky enough to know or to meet the character that you’re playing, I’d say, ‘It’s obvious: you quiz them diligently about their experience.’ Rhys Ifans
The strange thing about directing, for me, was that opportunities arose; I’d had some nice roles as an actor, but it just never happened with any kind of ease. So directing seemed like serendipity. Sean Mathias
I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing. David Lynch
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz
I don’t watch an awful lot of television. It’s a very strange thing, and I don’t know a lot of people who work in telly who watch a lot of it. Greg Davies
I used to do things like white-water rafting, trekking and horse-riding safaris. Recently, though, I had the humiliation of having to turn away from a helter skelter. It’s a very strange thing when you hit a certain age. Sarah Alexander
I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here. Deborah Cox
It’s a strange thing, this idea that for some reason, if a lot of people like what you’re doing, it’s therefore not very good. We use the phrase that a band have ‘sold out.’ Just so you know, if you’re doing a gig and you sell all your tickets, that is a brilliant thing to do. James Corden
The mind of the performer is a very strange thing. James Galway
I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don’t have it, I’m uncomfortable. It’s a strange thing: If I don’t have chaos, I create it. Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cities produce love and yet feel none. A strange thing when you think about it, but perhaps fitting. Cities need that love more than most of us care to imagine. Cities, after all, for all their massiveness, all their there-ness, are acutely vulnerable. Junot Diaz
War very strange thing. Not easy, not easy for sure to leave family, friends, even car, house, everything. Toni Kukoc
It’s a strange thing to keep having this image of you at the age of seven, 12 or 14 as the one that everyone not only remembers you by, but wants to think in some way that you still are. Nicholas Hammond
It’s such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you’d just have a screen test, and they’d say, ‘Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,’ and you’d just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever. Vinessa Shaw
It’s a very strange thing being recognized or looked upon as someone special. Aurora
Grief is a very strange thing. It can affect you in all kinds of ways. I lost a year. I’ve done a lot of therapy and it’s great to be back on the horse. Roland Orzabal
Developing characters is a strange thing. In the beginning they are abstract and I wonder how to move on from there. Ann Brashares
Its a strange thing because the West is rooted in a very harsh reality of hard living and scratching out a life for yourself, but its also wrapped in this mythos. There are of these tall tales and crazy stories about the West that you hear and can never really be sure of whats true and whats not. Colter Wall
Becoming famous is a strange thing in your own right. Carnie Wilson
Most people just settle – for a job or relationship, or where we live. Here’s the strange thing though: when you start going outside the box and questioning things, then people – because we’re taught this – start ridiculing you. Mike Hughes
Yet habit – strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? Herman Melville
Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I’ve been invited to a very exclusive ball and I’m just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they’ll at least give me a ride home. Darren Criss