Odd Quotes

891 quotes by 739 authors

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time. — Ezra Pound
This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in… — William Shakespeare
It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ? — Neil deGrasse Tyson
I had this odd sibling rivalry with America. — Patti Davis
I think there's something odd about eating another living anything. — Shania Twain
About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that… — Charles Darwin
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of an ordinary galaxy.… — Alan Watts
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor. — John Ruskin
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs. — Margaret Laurence
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained… — Stephen Jay Gould
I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an… — Paul Coffey
The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be. — Robert Wuhl
If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced… — Sun Tzu
In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness… — Ron Clarke
I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was… — Alan Watts
When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are… — Mary Midgley
There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever. — Alice Sebold

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