Quirk Quotes
18 quotes by 18 authors
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not a…
— Ken Dryden
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For most of us the rules of English grammar are at best a dimly remembered thing. But even for those who make the rules, grammatical…
— Bill Bryson
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Every good girl loved a bad boy. It was a fact of life, a quirk of nature. Opposites attract, and the badder the boy, the…
— Lora Leigh
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Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting.…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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When the most learned evolutionists can give neither the how nor the why, the marvels seem to show that adaptation is inexplicable. Yet those who…
— Norman Macbeth
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The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'
— Eric Sevareid
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I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply…
— Antony Sher
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The oceans of art are awash with people who can't paint. When those who can't paint notice those who can, they are sometimes not inclined…
— Robert Genn
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Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to…
— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue…
— Warren Ellis
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Tessa, surprising herself, let out a gasp of laughter. Will looked at her, his mouth just beginning to quirk up in a grin. "I must…
— Cassandra Clare
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For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at…
— John Berendt
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By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.
— John Woodward
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Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed…
— Boman Irani
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It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses…
— Rick Perlstein
Who Wrote These Quirk Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 18 Quirk Quotes as follows: