Odd Quotes

Wool, cotton, and the odd bits of silk and cashmere are the only acceptable materials for Prep clothes. They look better. They require professional maintenance. They are more expensive.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory.

Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.

What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around.

When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the Lion King soundtrack. It's really odd, but it's true.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

It just seems like atheists are not included in the basket of diversity in America, which is odd because we are the biggest minority. That is a bigger minority than any other minority you can name.

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.

Ski racers are built odd with overbuilt butts and legs.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.

The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk.

Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

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.

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

I find it odd that theres such strong objection to what is a clear way to assure that our elections are reliable and we can do a recount if there are any questions.

What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the readers opportunities to follow it at every step.

I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, / so much effort to be strange.

Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be

I play baseball and I like to read. What makes that odd?

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

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography.

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry.'

An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is.

Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me

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

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'.

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

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