Odd Things Quotes

• If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

  Cornelia Funke

  Memories, Book, Reading

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.

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• People will do odd things if you give them money.

  David Byrne

  People, Giving, Ifs

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• How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the event horizon, from huge tidal forces to variations in time. Personally, I'm voting on it having to do with gravity, either a polarization of the fields themselves or else something related to the time differential." I didn't know physics had become a democracy," Hanan murmered.

  Timothy Zahn

  Voting, Black, Democracy

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• It's an odd thing when there is a fan page for my daughter who is not yet 13.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Mother, Fans

  "'I don't want my kids to Google me and read lies and rumours': Johnny Depp frets over the internet and the price of fame" by John Hiscock, www.mirror.co.uk. May 9, 2012.

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• One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

  Richard Russo

  Simple, Men, Decision

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Aug 17, 2010

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• Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

  James M. Barrie

  Way, Happened, Happens

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.128, Jazzybee Verlag

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

  Robert Jordan

  Odd, I Can

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.232, Macmillan

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• Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Righteousness, Foe, Heresy

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.2699, Simon and Schuster

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• We [on the left] have to be used to being a minority -- a small minority -- for some time to come. The odd thing is that the right, even when it is in power, likes to think of itself as an embattled minority against this elite that somehow runs everything. Whereas the left, even when it has no power at all, likes to imagine it somehow represents the majority of people. These are mirror-image delusions.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Running, Thinking, Mirrors

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• The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

  Anthony Browne

  Drawing, Battle, Littles

  "A life in books: Anthony Browne". Interview with Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2009.

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• Love is an odd thing. As odd a thing as there is.

  Robert Jordan

  Love Is, Odd

  Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.33, Macmillan

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• I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

  Ricky Gervais

  Done, Television, Comedy

  Source: www.hitfix.com

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• Philosophy is an odd thing... There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don't offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life.

  Stephen Fry

  Philosophy, Live Your Life, Way To Live

  "Big Think Interview With Stephen Fry". bigthink.com. December 8, 2009.

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• Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation, and people are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool.

  Chris Hardwick

  Believe, People, Records

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The odd thing about Cripple of Inishmaan is its never actually been performed on the island.

  Garry Hynes

  Islands, Odd, Cripples

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• The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

  David Gemmell

  Dry, Mouths, Bladder

  "Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 22, May 1, 1988.

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• Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Jam, Puff

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• It's an odd thing to go to New York to shoot a movie that is set in Indiana.

  Bill Condon

  New York, Indiana, Odd

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• Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

  John Corbett

  Littles, Bugs, Fame

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing happening on Thanksgiving Day. Everyone in the institution seems to be thankful 'in general.' It's very strange. It's a little like being married in general.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Thanksgiving, Christian, Being Thankful

  Cornelius Plantinga (2001). “Beyond Doubt: Faith-Building Devotions on Questions Christians Ask”, p.52, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It's an odd thing but when you tell someone the true facts of a mythical tale they are indignant not with the teller but with you. They don't want to have their ideas upset. It rouses some vague uneasiness in them, I think, and they resent it. So they reject it and refuse to think about it. If they were merely indifferent it would be natural and understandable. But it is much stronger than that, much more positive. They are annoyed. Very odd, isn't it.

  Josephine Tey

  Thinking, Ideas, Annoyed

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• Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.

  Peter York

  People, Hats, Creation

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• Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Life, Odd

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• The Mars rover Curiosity has sent back images of some odd things on the surface of Mars, and some people think they could be UFOs. Here's my question. If we're on the surface of Mars, aren't we the UFO?

  Jay Leno

  Thinking, People, Curiosity

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• I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Actors, Boxers

  "Love & Other Drugs - Jake Gyllenhaal interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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