Best 186 quotes in «odd quotes» category

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

I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

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

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 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 find it odd that people take me seriously.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

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

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 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 an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

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

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 how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

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

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 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.

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

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

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.

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.