Alex North
Alex North

I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.

Allison Tolman
Allison Tolman

I haven't been recognized out in public or anything. The strangeness of celebrity has been relegated to Twitter, which is kind of manageable.

Ciaran Hinds
Ciaran Hinds

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

David Allee
David Allee

My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

David Remnick
David Remnick

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own.

Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

James Cronin
James Cronin

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.

Jason Schwartzman
Jason Schwartzman

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright

As I read 'The Infinities', with its magical, playful richness, its sensuous delight in the power of language to convey the strangeness and beauty of being human, I wondered if J. M. Coetzee, with his bleak, pared-down, elemental view of the world, had ever read a Banville and, if he had, whether he had envied him his astonishing powers.