Words matter. These are the best Strangeness Quotes from famous people such as Sarah Hall, Ciaran Hinds, Roger Rosenblatt, Washed Out, Rod McKuen, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.
When I was young I read ‘L’Etranger’ by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
You hear ten seconds of a song, and you know it’s OutKast. There’s a strangeness about it because it’s catchy, but it’s not just pop for the sake of pop. They’re pushing the envelope.
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man’s communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ had a formative effect on me. I think it’s one of those works that if you encounter it very early you’re doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Everything you have ever heard about the strangeness of Hollywood is true!
To pretend you don’t feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.
As a kid, I loved ‘Godot’ because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it’s much more resonant.
I feel compelled to make art that on one hand reflects and sometimes almost creates like a sense of comfort when confronted with the strangeness of the world.
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one’s reason; bad people stir one’s imagination.
I haven’t been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time.
I’m most interested in finding the strangeness and irony in reality. That’s my forte.
I’d like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.
One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At ‘The New Yorker’, we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind – Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.
