Odd Quotes

I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

Don't you find it odd that people will put more work into choosing their mechanic or house contractor than they will into choosing the person who grows their food?

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

It is odd how we sometimes deny ourselves the very pleasure we have longed for and which is finally within our reach.

I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

It's odd that men feel they must protect women, since for the most part they must be protected from men.

The truth will make you odd.

Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.

All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

I'm Irish, so I'm used to odd stews. I can take it. Just throw a lot of carrots and onions in there and I'll call it dinner.

It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

. . . maybe that's what life's all about: there's a lof of despair, but also the odd moments of beauty, where time is no longer the same . . . [like] something suspended . . . an elsewhere . . . an always within a never. Yes, that's is, an always within a never.

As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.

The promoters of the global economy...see nothing odd or difficult about unlimited economic growth or unlimited consumption in a limited world.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

All my legitimate jobs were embarrassing. I used to be stock boy at an Odd-Lot, making $35 a day.

Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.

Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.

It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested.

The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.

I do not like odd things until I can understand them.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.

90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.