Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if… — Rex Stout 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
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
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
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
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
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry.… — Dean Young 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
The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all… — Ian Mckellen 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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'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
“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
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