Odd Quotes
891 quotes by 719 authors
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It is odd how all men develop the notion, as they grow older, that their mothers were wonderful cooks. I have yet to meet a…
— Robertson Davies
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Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.
— Alice Clayton
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Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that…
— John Hodgman
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
— Jack Prelutsky
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Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
— Leonard Mlodinow
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The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me…
— Matt de la Pena
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Bodybuilding is men on a stage in their underwear wearing brown paint showing other men their muscles. It is training for appearance only, and at…
— Mark Rippetoe
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing.…
— Jose Saramago
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You have to be odd to be number one.
— Dr. Seuss
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.
— C.S. Lewis
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I was involved in school plays, but when I left school I did a couple of odd jobs as a baker's apprentice and then as…
— John Thaw
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I was not long since in a company where I was not who of my fraternity brought news of a kind of pills, by true…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even…
— Eddie Izzard
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Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.
— George Soros
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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head,…
— Charles Lamb
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Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.
— Brendan Rodgers
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I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles
— Jerry Hall
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This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd…
— Dorothy Parker
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Of course I have the odd bad game like other players. But I can't accept that. Especially when things don't go right for United. It…
— Ruud van Nistelrooy
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