Best 186 quotes in «odd quotes» category

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

I'm just a regular dude with an odd job.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

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.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.

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?

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 on my own union council for twenty-odd years.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

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.