Ziggy Marley
Musician
"I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people."
Strange Places quotes
Strange Places
53 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Madonna Ciccone
Singer
"But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere."
Douglas Adams
Writer, Humorist
"We live in strange times. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own. Being able to glance out into this bewildering complexity of infinite recursion and say things like, 'Oh, hi, Ed! Nice tan. How's Carol?' involves a great deal of filtering skill for which all conscious entities have eventually to develop a capacity in order to protect themselves from the contemplation of the chaos through which they seethe and tumble."
Morgan Freeman
Actor, Narrator
"My earrings are worth just enough to buy me a coffin if I die in a strange place. That was the reason why sailors used to wear them."
Michael Grant
Author
"It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place."
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"I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa."
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"I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart."
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"I don't like to go to strange places."
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"We live in strange times. We also live in strange places, each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universe are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own."
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"I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious."
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"The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it."
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