Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet
"The Salutation", stanza 7; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 3.
Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) English poet
"The Salutation", stanza 7; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 3.
David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
As quoted in The Making of Dune (1984) by Ed Naha, p. 213
Miley Cyrus (1992) American actor and singer-songwriter
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7667260.stm (October 14, 2008)
“What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”
Colin Wilson book The Outsider
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter one, The Country of the Blind
“It was a strange feeling, like touching a void.”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
“They wore their strange beauty like war paint.”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
“Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.”
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
First line, spoken by Sam Clemens.
The Riverworld series, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971)