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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't… — Stephen Fry 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
The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor… — N. T. Wright 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a… — Robert Trivers Copy Share Image
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“The oddities of charming people exasperate us, but there are few if any charming people who are not, at the same time,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about… — John Vanderslice 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
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
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
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
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
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
