Iliza Shlesinger Quotes

You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it.

In this case it appealed to me partly because it felt close to me in some ways. This is about a confused, bewildered middle class Englishman adrift in smalltown America and that has definitely been me.

Surreal can be exciting and good, and it can be like living inside an alien landscape, and it can be completely interesting, or you can be alienated from your own life - inside your own life, it doesn't feel familiar any more.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

I think we all feel like weirdos for different reasons.

All of life is a foreign country.

When I first moved to Los Angeles, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me.

Being a kid, as all kids do, you feel out of place or like kind of a freak. You wake up feeling like your head got put onto someone else's body that day.

I just feel very often like a child in an absolutely weird world. I think that life is quite weird sometimes.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

I never really felt like I belonged in California.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

High school's like another planet.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

I don't understand anything about America's culture.

I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.

I was the weirdest kid in this small town in Washington. I was the only person who was from somewhere else, so I think they just didn't understand it... They said I was a weirdo or that I didn't belong there. That was the hardest one when people said I didn't belong there.

Most of the time, I'm a little bewildered or sort of feel out of place.

I've never felt like I fit in. I always feel like I'm walking in the wrong direction or swimming upstream.

I feel like a Space Jam' creature.

I remembered what it was like: the weirdness, being the odd man out, trying to make my way around campus, and trying to figure out who my friends would be, who to steer clear of. I wrote it all down in a fanciful way - the feelings of alienation, the feelings of uncertainty, of being away from home for the first time.

In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into.

I am very much out of my element here. There are moments, listening to the conversations going on around me, when I feel I am going to lose my mind. Earlier today, I heard someone say the words, "I felt at one with the divine source of creation." Mary Roach on a conducted tour of Hades. I had to fight the urge to push back my chair and start screaming: STAND BACK! ALL OF YOU! I'VE GOT AN ARTHUR FINDLAY BOX CUTTER! Instead, I quietly excused myself and went to the bar, to commune with spirits I know how to relate to.

It's the strange world.' 'The strangest.