Best 186 quotes in «odd quotes» category

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

It is a very odd sort of Patriot that would destroy the First Amendment to protect the Second.

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

It's odd about tattoos. I've talked to several hundred men convicted of homicide-multiple homicide, in most cases. The only common denominate- I could find among them was tattoos. A good eighty percent of them were heavily tattooed.

It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.

It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

I was on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

It would be one thing if I had been cursed so that everyone I loved would die," said Will. "I could keep myself from loving. To keep others from caring for me--it is an odd, exhausting procedure.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.

I went through phases of odd hairstyles and tank top-over-tee outfits and stuff like that.

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.

Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.

John Kerry told Tom Ridge he was too busy to receive a Homeland Security briefing. I thought that was odd, since you're not supposed to ignore terrorist threats until after you become president.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.

My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk.

Odd that the future should be so difficult to bring into focus when the past, uninvited, offered itself up so easily for inspection.

Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop… suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.

So, they had this 40-odd year friendship with each other and with Mr Harwood. So, when I came on it Albert, Tom and Maggie were in the cast. But then Albert wasn't up for it, so he had to withdraw.

Success? Odd as it seems, you will achieve the greates results in business and career if you drop the word 'achievement' from your vocabulary and replace it with 'contribution'.