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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
Douglas MacArthur
War
Dreams
Strange
Battlefield
Guns
Rattle
Hear
Mournful
Crash
Again
People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?
Gunter Grass
Time
Me
You
Change
Strange
People
Sometimes
Alien
People Change
Think
Alienation
Later
About
Seem
He
Feel
Him
Am
Were
His
Years
Child
Person
Trying
Childhood
Happened
Decipher
Certain
Stranger
Things
Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.
Henry Lawson
Home
Strange
Old
Lost
Ease
Ways
High
Restless
Steep
Road
New
Know
Track
New Ways
Oh
Low
Old Ways
Deep
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Herman Melville
Life
Man
Strange
Joke
Universe
Vast
Takes
Practical
Call
Occasions
Affair
Mixed
Queer
His
Times
Certain
Whole
Mother Teresa was asked what was the meaning of life, and she said to help other people, and I thought, 'What a strange thing to say' - but maybe it's the right thing to say.
Jesse Eisenberg
Life
Strange
People
Mother
Thought
Meaning Of Life
Other
Right Thing
Say
She
Mother Teresa
Said
Maybe
The Right Thing
Meaning
Meaning Of
Asked
Strange Thing
Help
Right
Thing
It's very strange that the people you love are often the people you're most cruel to.
Kenneth Branagh
Love
You
Strange
People
Cruel
Most
Very
Often
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
Noel Coward
Love
Hope
Day
Peace
Strange
Dignity
Courage
Will
Made
Country
Hell
One Day
Ours
Out
Find
Unbelievable
Spirit
Drink
Greatness
Heaven
Which
Again
Much
I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.
Penny Marshall
Strange
Insecurity
Fearlessness
Combination
Massive
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
Broken
Wise
Heart
Strange
Before
Must
Make
How
Years
Often
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
T. S. Eliot
Struggle
Strange
Words
Lover
Breath
Asthmatic
Must
Struggling
Like
Romantic
Inadequate
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement.
Thomas Wolfe
Strange
Our
Paradox
Haunting
Only
Perhaps
Fixed
America
Movement
Certain
Here
I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.
Tim Burton
Life
Dreams
Strange
Remember
My Life
Real Life
Dream
Seems
Like
Real
Any
Often
Much
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
Strange
Power
Ability
Writers
Self
Test
Familiar
Imagine
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
William Cowper
Happiness
Life
Strange
True Happiness
Owes
Everything
Ourselves
Only
Purpose
True
Existence
Squandering
Owe
Little
Us
Bargain
We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
Dreams
Strange
Logical
Nothing
Our
Minds
Our Dreams
Dream
Purposeful
Understand
Least
Goes
Act
Awake
Comparison
Sleep
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
Hu Shih
Great
Strange
People
Beauty
Become
Group
Cornerstone
Despised
Sacred
Environment
Another
Edifice
Cultural
May
Different
Grandeur
Ridiculous
Among
Rejected
If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.
Jessye Norman
Time
You
Strange
Yourself
People
Weather
Live
Every
Think
Every Time
Air
Way
Out
Find
About
Something
Put
Thumb
Limit
Up
Very
Send
Going
Different
Want
Your
Strange Way
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Joel Sternfeld
You
Strange
World
Black
Black And White
Looking
White
Photograph
Color
Abstract
Strange World
Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
Matt Damon
Today
Day
You
Strange
World
Matter
Yesterday
Nothing
Everyone
Rules
One Day
Know
Looks
Still
Odd
Odd Thing
Fame
Intellectually
Mattered
Same
Same Things
Famous
Different
Then
Really
Next
Differently
Thing
Things
Apply
We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful.
Mike Ditka
Relationship
Strange
Wonderful
He
Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Philip K. Dick
Strange
Reality
Paranoia
How
Link
Up
Then
Now
Now And Then
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.
Thomas Wolfe
Beautiful
Death
Alone
Heart
Strange
Lie
Darkness
Naked
Know
Dying
Asleep
United
Night
Sleep
It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
Family
Strange
Wealth
Pride
Down
Older
Astonish
Month
Distinction
Citizens
Would
Per
Ten
Put
Aristocratic
Learn
Boy
Been
Dollars
Friendless
Uneducated
Candidate
Working
Amuse
Someone asked me what the key to being a good frontman was, and I think having a sense of humor about it is pretty near the top of that list. It's a very strange place to be in, and I don't take that role too seriously.
Alex Turner
Good
Me
Strange
Sense Of Humor
Key
Seriously
Humor
Sense
Think
Too
Top
Pretty
About
Someone
Having
Take
Very
Role
List
Being
Place
Asked
Near
As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.
Babe Ruth
Relationship
Strange
Natural
World
Striking
Out
Easy
Born
Soon
Like
Most
Felt
Got
Been
Mound
Pitcher
Pitching
Just
Natural Thing
Thing
Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
Strange
Wind
Worry
Destiny
Window
About
Wings
Through
Blow
Strange Things
Things
Night
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