Odd Quotes

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. (John Updike)

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying.

Charles Krauthammer

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.

Frances Burney

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Marc Jacobs

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Bertrand Russell

Borrowers of books -- those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Charles Lamb

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Virginia Woolf

The And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stoln forth of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil.

William Shakespeare

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen. (Simone de Beauvoir)

I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

Jack Osbourne

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

Milan Kundera

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time.

Augusten Burroughs

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

Arthur C. Brooks

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Jeremy Paxman

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

Travis Barker

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

Christopher Eccleston

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 reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.

Harry Mathews

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes. (Kid Koala)

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

Morgan Brittany

But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

Parminder Nagra

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

Kiefer Sutherland

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Daniel Handler

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