Odd Quotes

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I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable… — John Derbyshire
A student well versed in even one technique will naturally see corresponding points in other techniques. A upper level punch, a lower punch, a front… — Gichin Funakoshi
It was both odd and unjust, a real example of pitiful arbitrariness of existance, that you were born into a particular time & held prisoner… — Daniel Kehlmann
Michael Ondaatjeâ€™s work taught me how to be at home in fragments, and how to think about a big story in carefully curated vignettes. All… — Amitava Kumar
I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love. — Shirley Knight
Against the odd's, I have persevered, I am the living attestation of the American dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. I have… — Don King
A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd… — Benjamin Franklin
If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on… — Bill Russell
And it occurred to me that in this new millennial life of instant and ubiquitous connection, you don't in fact communicate so much as leave… — Chang-Rae Lee
It is odd to watch with what feverish ardour Americans pursue prosperity, ever tormented by the shadowy suspicion that they might not have chosen the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. — Elliott Smith
You may think it odd that there were three men to look after one tiny station, but the people who ran the railway knew that… — Joan Aiken
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times? — Cornelia Funke
An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing. — Paula Gunn Allen
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them.… — Ian Fleming
Here's how the people live here, in big house-shaped boxes to keep off 'rain' and 'snow,' holes cut in the sides so they can see… — Richard Bach
Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period… — William Redington Hewlett
I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to… — Plato
Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do… — William O'Rourke
I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. â€” I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the… — Lucy Fry

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