Odd Quotes
Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.
I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.
Because you're running an enterprise with two hundred-odd people, and it's really your responsibility to keep it moving quickly. So you have to know what you're doing, do it, and move on.
Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice To change true rules for odd inventions.
Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.
I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.
In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.
Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world.
In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.
There is something strangely ecstatic, oddly fascinating and infinitely magnetic about unrequited love.
As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right, ' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways.
Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.
If you try to do a task at your odd hours, you will waste so much time only to find out that you did a poor job after all.
No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty
I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself.
The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.
His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.
Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.
This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose
Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.
And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.
Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...
It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.
Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.
Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.
It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.
Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.
I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck.
My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light.
So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.
When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.
