Odd Quotes

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

I started acting pretty young, so I haven't had too many odd jobs. But I used to sell candy out of my locker in middle school.

When I came back into show business in '88 after spending 20-odd years in the civil service, it wasn't planned.

In an odd way (the death of John Daly) is cheering news!

An odd outlook on life is the beginning of good comedic writing.

Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

And the odd think in Dad's voice was the sound truth makes being said.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

When I look back over my novels what I find is that when I think I'm finished with a theme, I'm generally not. And usually themes will recur from novel to novel in odd, new guises.

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

I heard Amos yell, “For Brooklyn!” It was an odd battle cry.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.

I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people.

I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

Getting recognized is sort of weird anyway. I'm 17 now. You get the odd person sort of shouting out "Ron!" or something. And my hair at the moment sort of stands out a bit, can't really avoid it.

My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.

I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.

I've had such an odd career.

Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.

It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all.

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.

I don't mind women who want to act. That's fine. It's odd that men want to act, in that there's still a degree of vanity associated with it.

I love to cook. Very healthy eating. I don't eat meat, fish, or eggs. Nothing that had to die.I think there's something odd about eating another living anything.

And he’s just plain odd. And what is your problem that you keep putting yourself in my way? (Geary) She’s feisty, Skotos. I can see the appeal. (ZT)

I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

If I went to a psychiatrist, it would be a long session. I've always thought that I do have a number of issues that probably need dealing with, because I am quite odd in some ways.

Odd things happen in New York, which is why it's such a great source of stories.

Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

That Arthur has not always existed seems odd to me. Like the wind on the moors and the wild winter stars, surely he has always lived . . . and always will.

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.

There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him.

Bryon tilted his head to a very odd angle, half-closed his eyes and composed his features to suggest that he was about to expire from chronic indigestion.

Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.