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
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
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
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
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
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
As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“Here in these circuses and carnivals we all love each other with our oddities and queernesses.” — Rawi Hage 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
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. — Martha Plimpton 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
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
Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek: I'll stay a month longer. I am a fellow o' the strangest mind i' the world; I delight in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted,… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick… — Tom Waits 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
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
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
“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
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and… — Alan Watts 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
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
“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
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