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Strangers Quotes

Skeptical of strangers, lobstermen are keepers of secrets, working in the howling wind and hot sun, the icy snows, and bewildering fog. When I was growing up, the lore was that they had the right to shoot anyone who messed with their traps.

Sun Fog Growing Up Wind Strangers

I was raised by a single dad. Dad's idea of hanging out with your kid or day care was give her $20 in quarters, drop her at the arcade, and tell her not to talk to strangers.

Day Care Strangers Talk Arcade Kid

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Beauty Great Light Strangers Bring

In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'

Hate Strangers Matter Anything Worse

I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

Live Someone Help Strangers Place

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

Unity Strangers Been Raised Another

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini

Passion Best Friends Strangers Talk

People have always taken photos of themselves, either with camera timers or by handing their Nikons over to strangers in foreign countries and then paying large sums to get them back.

People Camera Strangers Back Over

I know my mother has always looked at strangers as friends.

Jeanne Phillips

Mother Friends Strangers Know Always

My everyday life in which I do exactly the same things as everyone else should not inspire people, and yet I am constantly congratulated by strangers for simply existing.

Life I Am People Inspire Strangers

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Reading Think Strangers Alive Young

Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state if you hunted from Jonesboro to El Dorado.

Hospitality You Strangers Find Even

I try to win the love and approval of strangers, since it didn't work with my family.

Work Family Love Win Strangers Try

I marketed pens - on the phone. But the beauty of the gig was that you had to call these strangers and say, 'Hi, how ya doing?' You made up a name, like, 'Hey, it's Edward Quartermaine from California. You're eligible to receive this grandfather clock or a trip to Tahiti.' You promise them all these things if they buy a gross of pens.

Beauty Name Doing You Strangers Say

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

Time People Ice Strangers Know Quit

Families have a sense of kinship that no four strangers would ever have as a team.

Team Strangers Sense Would Four

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Time Me Environment Strangers Become

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Wedding Someone Strangers Bad Cards

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

Live You Strangers Find Alien Years

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Money Me Strangers Sometimes Will

In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit him or her to sit in easy judgment and feel superior at watching familiar strangers make fools of themselves. Reality TV looks in only one direction: down.

Direction Reality Feel Strangers

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

George McGovern

Small Strangers Serious Presence

People say New Yorkers can't get along. Not true. I saw two New Yorkers, complete strangers, sharing a cab. One guy took the tires and the radio; the other guy took the engine.

David Letterman

People Strangers New Say True Radio

Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers.

Nature Marriage Fighting Strangers

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