I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
“If all the eccentricities and all the strangenesses in this world suddenly disappear, people will fall asleep from the boredom! Every kind… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact… — James Krenov Copy Share Image
The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who… — Elton John Copy Share Image
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To… — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Paradox is thus a much deeper and universal concept than the ancients would have dreamed. Rather than an oddity, it is a… — William Poundstone Copy Share Image
What I value most in new music today is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday… — Bob Newhart Copy Share Image
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“As he came up Second Avenue, Henry saw that Jerry Lauterbach was again having trouble with the neighborhood psycho. It was natural,… — Margaret Scherf Copy Share Image
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in… — Mary J. Miller Copy Share Image
I do have quite a lot of sympathy for Fodor's picture of concepts as information-free atomic entities which get locked onto their… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“What are you doing?" "I'm darning a sock," he said, holding it up to show me. "What's that lump inside?" "A sock… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image