If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Jacques Derrida

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.
Ninon de Lenclos

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
Orville Wright

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
Alan Alda

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response.
Mary Oliver

Money is a strange business. People who haven't got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.
Ayrton Senna

Isn't it strange that we talk least about the things we think about most?
Charles Lindbergh

It is a strange enterprise to make respectable people laugh.
Moliere

When you are in a room and your job is to write jokes 10 hours a day, your mind starts going to strange places.
Seth MacFarlane

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.
Rowan Atkinson

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
Arthur Conan Doyle

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.
Moon Unit Zappa

What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others.
Eileen Caddy

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.
Anthony Hopkins

But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W. H. Davies

I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.
Haruki Murakami

It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
Natalie Portman

We live in a strange bubble.
Brian Molko

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.
Jessica Alba