Odd Quotes - Page 25

• I am the odd man out in the family.

  Loni Anderson

  Men, Odd Man

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• I'm the little half-black, half-Jewish girl who was odd and awkward. I try to be myself.

  Lauren London

  Girl, Awkward, Black

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• For some odd reason, I like a man in sweatsuits. Obviously, you want your man to look good in a suit, but I like when men look comfortable, and the swagger just stands out of that.

  Lauren London

  Men, Looks, Swagger

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• There was also a hunger strike in front of the National Press Club, which seemed an odd place to have a hunger strike (a cocktail fast, maybe). Although the Bangladeshis were savvy enough to know to know that if you're going to pester journalists, don't go to where they work: You'll never find them there.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hunger Strike, Clubs

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.20, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out.

  Richard Jefferson

  Optimistic, Work Out, Reason

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• That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there.

  Atom Egoyan

  Vision, Cost, Want

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Philosophy, Ghouls, Vampire

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• I think when I close my eyes what I think is 4,500 days or so, 4,250 I guess days, was long enough to give Iraq to come into compliance with the international order. And I think to myself how many Iraqi citizens died under the brutal regime of Saddam Hussein during those 4,200 odd days, and I think to myself how many more citizens of how many nations, the United States, Israel, or any other neighbor would die if Saddam Hussein went unchecked, though I am just grieved by the sacrifice of our brave men and women, but I think ultimately the greater good is served.

  Richard Armitage

  Eye, Sacrifice, Men

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• Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• In a way, certain sections of the media always wanted to knock me because I had captained my country and been skipper at Old Trafford. It was all a bit odd really.

  Bryan Robson

  Country, Media, Way

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• We are on Sunday night because that is where they put us 30-odd years ago. I think we became a habit.

  Morley Safer

  Sunday, Night, Thinking

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• It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it?

  Dan Simmons

  Humor, Together, Violence

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• I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

  Diane Wakoski

  Women, Writing, Thinking

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• The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble to arrive till to-morrow. Whichever she did Mrs Leak would not mind. That was one of the advantages of dealing with witches; they do not mind if you are a little odd in your ways, frown if you are late for meals, fret if you are out all night, pry and commiserate when at length you return. Lovely to be with people who prefer their thoughts to yours, lovely to live at your own sweet will, lovely to sleep out all night!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Love, Sweet, Sleep

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (1978). “Lolly Willowes: or, The loving huntsman”, Charles River Books

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• A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to get up, is strongest when he is weakest, richest when he is poorest, and happiest when he feels worst. He dies so he can live, forsakes in order to have, gives away so he can keep, sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, and knows that which passes knowledge.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Real, Order

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• Acting is an odd lifestyle. You make deep bonds quickly and, though you move on, you go around on a loop and see people again.

  Talulah Riley

  Moving, People, Acting

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

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• We were interviewing an author, and we started talking about how so many of them - Salinger, Shaw, Fitzgerald - were really an odd bunch. They put a barrier around themselves, and not many people got through it. This was the spark that I really latched onto - someone who could break through the barrier. Of course [FINDING FORRESTER] really began to take shape when I began to wonder, what if it was a young person?

  Mike Rich

  People, What If, Wonder

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• Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

  Pliny the Elder

  Powerful, Believe, Math

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1989). “Pliny: Natural History”

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• Home. One place is just like another, really. Maybe not. But truth is it's all just rock and dirt and people are roughly the same. I was born up there but I'm no stranger here. Have always felt at home everywhere, even in Virginia, where they hate me. Everywhere you go there's nothing but the same rock and dirt and houses and people and deer and birds. They give it all names, but I'm at home everywhere. Odd thing: unpatriotic. I was at home in England. I would be at home in the desert. In Afghanistan or far Typee. All mine, it all belongs to me. My world.

  Michael Shaara

  Hate, Home, Rocks

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.501, Ballantine Books

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• In deference to American traditions, my family put our oven to rare use at Thanksgiving during my childhood, with odd roast-turkey experiments involving sticky-rice stuffing or newfangled basting techniques that we read about in magazines.

  Jennifer Lee

  Turkeys, Childhood, Technique

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• It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

  Jean Giraudoux

  People, Waiting, Standing Out

  Jean Giraudoux (1963). “Judith. Tiger at the gates. Duel of angels”

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• After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Together, Half

  Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.305

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• I got brown sandwiches and green sandwiches. Its either very new cheese or very old meat. - Oscar Madison, from The Odd Couple

  Neil Simon

  Couple, Meat, Sandwiches

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• It's an odd state to be in, blowing the whistle on your home country.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Home, States

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• Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

  Damon Albarn

  Father, Night, Men

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