Odd Quotes · Page 12

An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream.

— Anonymous

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always…

— W. G. Sebald

“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here…

— Sue Fitzmaurice

Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

— Alice Clayton

If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.

— Ricky Gervais

We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.

— Da'Vine Joy Randolph

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…

— Ezra Pound

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.

— Dick Stuart

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

— Vladimir Nabokov

For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but…

— Lauren London

It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what…

— Barbara Pym

My questions did surprise some people. Others didn't bat an eye. That happens with all my books - I'll read them in…

— Laurie Keller

exaggerated sunsets / splashed with rain, odd collisions / of roots, animals, seeds. / I didn't like a thing I saw, /…

— Stephen Dunn

I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice…

— John Thaw

There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I…

— Yami Gautam

Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation,…

— Chris Hardwick

Evanlyn opened her mouth to scream. But the horror of the moment froze the sound in her throat and she crouched, openmouthed,…

— John Flanagan

I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough…

— Richard Armitage

To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process…

— Brian Henson

Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled…

— Jeff Belanger

I see no real argument in Britain that is concerned that an Indian company owns our most successful car manufacturer or that…

— George Osborne

Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great…

— Jerry Saltz

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd…

— James Lovelock

Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,…

— Bertrand Russell

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.

— Josh Lanyon

I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I…

— Daniel Handler

It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

— Johnny Depp

Isn't it odd that the guy was politically correct in one particularly weird way. Bill Clinton never lit a cigar.

— Chris Matthews

TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.

— Christopher Miller

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

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

It strikes me as somewhat odd that the people who use God's name most frequently, both in life and in literature, usually…

— Madeleine L'Engle

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

— Shirley Manson

Reagan has been deified by the Republican Party, which is odd. The Reagan that modern Republicans revere is not the real Reagan.

— H. W. Brands

While it's great that some actors can do any character with conviction, I'd probably look odd doing anything unreal.

— Waheeda Rehman

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free…

— W. Somerset Maugham

To be influenced by a magazine and, say, a Swedish theme, unless it resonates with you, it seems kind of odd and…

— Michael S. Smith

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach…

— Saul Bellow

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

— Mark Foster

I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.

— Manny Pacquiao