Oddities Quotes

36 quotes by 36 authors

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity. — Sandra Bullock
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin… — Enid Bagnold
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me… — Lorna Luft
The chimpanzee and the human share about 99.5 percent of their evolutionary history, yet most human thinkers regard the chimp as a malformed, irrelevant oddity,… — Robert Trivers
As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these… — Noam Chomsky
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. — Trevor Baylis
The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at… — N. T. Wright
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. — Michel de Certeau
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". — Russell Brand
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready… — Rex Stout
Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we… — Peter Brook
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of… — James Krenov
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that… — Roy Lichtenstein
The things that stand out are often the oddities. — Pierre Salinger
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
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. — Susan Sontag
The demographic of our audience is young. It also contains a high proportion of black, Jewish and gay people, who have all been encouraged by… — Ian Mckellen
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 from the 1700s,… — Tom Waits
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien?… — Mark Haddon

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