Odd Quotes - Page 23

• You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

  Brett Somers

  Couple, Fighting, Culture

  "Somers in the City". Interview with Michael Portantiere, www.theatermania.com. July 3, 2003.

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• Some guys smoke. Some guys drink. Some guys chase women. I'm a big barbecue-sauce guy. ... I'm like that guy on the Odd Couple, and it's not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

  Rick Majerus

  Couple, Guy, Pieces

  Rick Majerus, Gene Wojciechowski (2000). “My Life On a Napkin: Pillow Mints, Playground Dreams and Coaching the Runnin' Utes”, Hyperion

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• From the state of the Uncarved Block comes the ability to enjoy the simple and the quiet, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work, odd as that may appear to others at times. As Piglet put it in Winnie-the-Pooh, "Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right."

  Benjamin Hoff

  Block, Silly, Simple

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• In Joel's view, that reformation begins with people going o the trouble and expense of buying directly from farmers they know - "relationship marketing," as he calls it. He believes the only meaningful guarantee of integrity is when buyers and sellers can look one another in the eye, something few of us ever take the trouble to do. "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?"

  Michael Pollan

  Meaningful, Integrity, Believe

  Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.124, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It may seem odd to talk about something as soft and fuzzy as "passion" as an integral part of a strategic framework. But throughout the good-to-great companies, passion became a key part of the Hedgehog Concept.

  James C. Collins

  Business, Passion, Keys

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• It's an odd job, making decent people laugh.

  Moliere

  Jobs, Laughter, Work

  'La Critique de l'ècole des femmes' (1663) sc. 6

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• We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Dream, Time, May

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• It's odd to spend your vacation with someone else's music especially when you're alone. You're free to let loose, unobserved, but someone else has chosen the words you belt out in private, the rythms you can dance to like a fool.

  Julia Glass

  Vacation, Fool, Belts

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• To be honest, I don't want No. 1's anymore. Now, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't mind the odd few, but I'd also like a record going in at eight and staying around.

  Robbie Williams

  Stay Strong, Eight, Mind

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• It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another.

  Fannie Heaslip Lea

  Stars, Moon, Destiny

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• He was a long, stripy policeman, who flowed out of his uniform at odd spots, as if Nature, setting out to make a constable, had had a good deal of material left over which she had not liked to throw away but hardly seemed able to fit into the general scheme.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Long, Able

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• You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.

  Jeffrey Bernard

  Girl, Weather, Work Out

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• It's odd being an American now. Most of us are peaceful, but here we are again, in our fifth major war of this century.

  Pete Hamill

  Love, Peace, War

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• Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities of the speeding reader, perhaps like gossips at a wedding.

  William H. Gass

  Reading, Gossip, Crowds

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• The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.

  Winston Churchill

  Animal, Age, Yards

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• It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.

  Diane Cilento

  Grandmother, Piano, Different

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• I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

  Luke Perry

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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

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• The ironic is a mere ancient whisper in this torqued narrative: its odd violence feels true. Today & Tomorrow crashes through the windows of strip malls and paints the hypertrophic aisles with bristly-creepy hilarity.

  Stacey Levine

  Ironic, Creepy, Hilarity

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• I think it’s odd how it’s mirrored my life so much.

  Eve Myles

  Thinking

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• That the question of likability even exists in literary conversations is odd. It implies that we are engaging in a courtship. When characters are unlikable, they don’t meet our mutable, varying standards. Certainly we can find kinship in fiction, but literary merit shouldn’t be dictated by whether we want to be friends or lovers with those about whom we read.

  Roxane Gay

  Character, Literary Merit, Fiction

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• Well, considering my entire life, now seems rules by odd coincidences, I figure it's right on track.

  Alice Clayton

  Track, Coincidence, Figures

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• Even in my own life, there are memories I have that are difficult to explain - happenings that are so odd and unaccountably weird, that it is difficult to imagine they were not the result of prolonged and frequent contact with aliens throughout my life.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

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• I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Writing, Illustration, Firsts

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• Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Understanding, Feelings, Research

  Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.19, Vintage

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• The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me up to accomplish absolutely anything.

  Matt de la Pena

  Self, Feelings, Excitement

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