sleepin with strangers will have you waking with enemies!
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it’s because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.
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.
All the wild sweetness of the flower Tangled against the wall. It was that magic, silent hour. . . . The branches grew so tall They twined themselves into a bower. The sun shown. . . and the fall Of yellow blossom on the grass! You feel that golden rain? Both of you could not hold, alas, (both of you tried, in vain) A memory, stranger. So I pass. . . . It will not come again.
It was his peculiar happiness that he scarcely ever found a stranger whom he did not leave a friend; but it must likewise be added, that he had not often a friend long without obliging him to become a stranger.
It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed.
Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.
What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.
Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
A stranger's rose is but a thorn.
Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.
If 'other people have experiences incorrectly' is annoying to you, think how unbearable it must be to have a condescending stranger tell you they hate the way you're experiencing your life at just the moment you've found something you want to remember.
Once best friends now strangers with memories.
It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.
The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.
[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.