Odd Quotes - Page 11

• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Money, Business, Generosity

  Ivan Roe, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1953). “Shelley, the last phase”

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• First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

  Nate Silver

  Thinking, Views, People

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• After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

  Arthur Smith

  Memories, Atmosphere, Phrases

  "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

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• Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

  Kevin Smith

  Reason, Filmmaker, Deeper

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2008.

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• I do have odd habits. I check under my bed every night for the bogeyman. That's just a little thing, though.

  Tori Spelling

  Night, Bed, Littles

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

  Steven Spielberg

  Thinking, Strange, Abraham

  "Daniel Day-Lewis, Steven Spielberg Share 'Lincoln' Experience" by Lana Zak, abcnews.go.com. November 9, 2012.

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• You know, with the film industry crews, there's an odd mix between a very technical and a very artistic approach to the work, and sometimes as a woman you have to be a little bit careful about how things come out because people don't really want to listen if it's in a certain emotional tone or too strong.

  Kristen Stewart

  Strong, Emotional, People

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• I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Stars, Father, Expression

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There was too much going on here -- too much that strayed from odd all the way over into seriously weird.

  Charles de Lint

  Too Much, Way

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• I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from all records under her maiden name. I finally understand the anger behind feminism - the idea that as a woman you are property to be conveyed between your father and your husband, but never an individual who exists independently. And on the flip side, it is also one of the few ways one can legitimately get lost - no one questions it.

  A.M. Homes

  Husband, Father, Thinking

  A.M. Homes (2012). “The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir”, p.102, Granta Books

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• A wager?" I repeated. "Yes," he said, and gave me a slow smile, bright with challenge. ... "Stake?" I asked cautiously. He was still smiling, an odd sort of smile, hard to define. "A kiss." My first reaction was outrage, but then I remembered that I was on my way to Court, and that had to be the kind of thing they did at Court. And if I win I don't have to collect. I hesitated only a moment longer, lured by the thought of open sky, and speed, and winning. "Done," I said.

  Sherwood Smith

  Kissing, Winning, Sky

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• How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sharks, Whales, Thursday

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• It's odd, and a little unsettling, to reflect upon the fact that English is the only major language in which "I" is capitalized; in many other languages "You" is capitalized and the "i" is lower case." --

  Sydney J. Harris

  Littles, Facts, Language

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• The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

  Daniel Handler

  Flower, Doors, Numbers

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• Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Clothes, Tunes

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.

  James A. Owen

  Men, Thinking, Odd Man

  James A. Owen (2009). “The Search for the Red Dragon”, p.316, Simon and Schuster

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• I had been hungry all the years- My noon had come, to dine- I, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread, 'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-- Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hurt, Wine, Years

  Emily Dickinson, “I Had Been Hungry All The Years”

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• What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end.

  Tim O'Brien

  Memories, Littles, Sticks

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.34, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to throw all your money at the radio while yelling, "I love you." I don't know what it is.

  Jonathan Goldstein

  Love You, Yelling, Voice

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• Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there.

  Barbara Pym

  People, Upset, Library

  Barbara Pym (1981). “No fond return of love”

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• I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.

  Douglas Coupland

  Writing, Animal, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Thinking, Careers

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [262]

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• That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fashion, Science, Oddities

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.226, University of Illinois Press

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• The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

  Lewis Carroll

  Night, Sea, Shining

  Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)

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• Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Cells, Blood

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