strangeness

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

I tell you, if you feel strange, strange things will happen to you: Fallen peacocks on library shelves

What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

In my family strange is relative.

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

People are strange . . .

Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down_and writes.Granted, most writers I know are a bit strange.Some, downright weird.But then again, you__ have to be.To spend hundreds and hundreds of hours sitting in front of a computer screen staring at lines of information is pretty tedious. More like a computer programmer. And no matter how cool the Matrix made looking at code seem, computer programmers are even weirder than authors.

Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

If there__ one thing I have learned it__ that if you carry on as though nothing strange is happening, it usually stops being strange

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

Ah, sweetie. If the poets couldn__ unriddle them, then you certainly can__. Be kind, and keep your ears on offer if she wants to talk. But you can__ draw out the strangeness, Edgar. It__ not a poison.