Best 186 quotes in «odd quotes» category

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

He regarded life as a rather odd club of which he had accidentally become a member and from which one could be expelled without reasons having to be supplied. He had already decided to leave the club if the meetings should become all too boring. But how boring is boring?

He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves.

How odd it is that sewing is thought to be 'women's work' when surgeons, sailors, and cowboys sew too. Yet how many female thoracic surgeons are there? And if precision motor activities are thought to be performed better by women, why wouldn't they make better surgeons too?

How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.

I am the odd man out in the family.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

I don't care about risk to me," he hissed, leaning forward across the table. "I care about what happens to you! Dammit, I'm practically indestructible. Let me go. You stay behind." "Yes," Clary said, "Jace won't find that odd at all. You can just tell him you've always been secretly in love with him and you can't stand being parted.

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.

I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.

I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that Ive just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.

I'm a huge fan of the Rod Serling sci-fi, where they could take the most odd and enormous ideas but ground them in something very human.

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 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 just a regular dude with an odd job.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.