Odd quotes

I love playing odd roles.
-- Aaron Paul

#Roles #Odd

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

#Men #Chivalry #Odd

We get the odd notion that God is showing mercy because Jesus died. No. Jesus died because God is showing mercy.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Jesus #Odd #Mercy

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.
-- Alan Cumming

#Firsts #Odd #Scottish

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.
-- Alexander Pope

#Voice #People #Odd

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

#Track #Coincidence #Odd

Sometimes its odd to interact with someone to whom you purposed.
-- Amardeep Singh

#Sometimes #Odd

My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.
-- Andie MacDowell

#Hollywood #Montana #Odd

I guess I'm odd-looking. I'm skinny. But I'm not only skinny - I'm oddly shaped.
-- Andy Dick

#Skinny #Odd

There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.
-- Ann Rule

#Fate #Way #Odd

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

#Death #Body #Odd

Authors have odd relationships with their creations They owe their fame and fortune to their characters but feel enslaved by them.
-- Anthony Horowitz

#Character #Odd #Fame

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
-- Archibald MacLeish

#Atheism #Odd

Time is the one thing we possess. Our success depends upon the use of our time, and its by-product, the odd moment.
-- Arthur Brisbane

#Use #Time Management #Odd

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
-- Arthur Golden

#Life Is Like #Sometimes #Odd

Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
-- Baroness Orczy

#Men #Ties #Odd

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

#Stones #Gigs #Odd

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?
-- Bob Geldof

#Heart #Divorce #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.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Unhappy #World #Odd

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

#Reality #Complicated #Odd

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.
-- Celia Green

#People #Facts #Odd

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

#Book #Mean #Odd

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
-- Cornelia Funke

#Book #Odd

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

#Sometimes #Odd #Pleasure

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?
-- Dan Ariely

#Mistake #Odd #Found

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

#Odd

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

#Iron #Odd #Platypus

My upbringing was middle-class but my parents' families were both working-class so I had this odd combination of working-class background but in a privileged position.
-- Denise Mina

#Class #Parent #Odd

I eat quite healthily normally but, like everyone, have relapses and give in to the odd cake.
-- Denise Van Outen

#Cake #Giving #Odd

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.
-- Derek Jarman

#Men #Odd #Purity

Isn't it odd? A guy bats .301 and has 35 homers. Then everybody starts to tell him what a good fielder he has become.
-- Dick Stuart

#Guy #Bats #Odd

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.
-- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#Time #Odd #Minutes

I then realized my analytics data was a bit odd. My keywords were no longer with me
-- Douglas Bader

#Data #Historical #Odd

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.
-- Douglas Bader

#Legs #Odd #Appearance

You have to be odd to be number one.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Numbers #Odd

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
-- Ed Sheeran

#Sex #Thinking #Odd

If your goal is purity of heart, be prepared to be thought very odd.
-- Elisabeth Elliot

#Heart #Goal #Odd

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

#Sound #Odd #Harmony

Awkward, odd, and difficult situations will always present themselves. You just have to stay cool and work through them.
-- Erik Apple

#Mma #Awkward #Odd

I think it’s odd how it’s mirrored my life so much.
-- Eve Myles

#Thinking #Odd

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.
-- Fanny Burney

#World #Saws #Odd

I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.
-- Florence Welch

#Jeans #Looks #Odd

It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
-- Ford Madox Ford

#Guarantees #Texture #Odd

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

#Islands #Odd Things #Odd

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.
-- George Eliot

#Life #Odd #Figures

I am a bit odd. I am somewhat evangelical. But I am not crazy.
-- Gordon Gee

#Crazy #Odd #Evangelical

Working in films, there are hundreds of odd moments.
-- Helen McCrory

#Film #Odd #Moments

We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced.
-- Ilona Andrews

#Names #Looks #Odd

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

#Past #Odd #Unpredictable

It felt odd to realize she was frightened more by what he might know, and not of what he might be.
-- J.R. Ward

#Might #Realizing #Odd

You are so . . . odd." "I shall take that as a compliment." -Thor to No'One
-- J.R. Ward

#Compliment #Odd

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

#Odd #Filmmaker

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

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

#People #Waiting #Odd

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

#Odd #Stereotype #Chic

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Dream #Bones #Odd

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that.
-- Jeff Bridges

#Children #Way #Odd

I find it odd that people take me seriously.
-- Jeremy Paxman

#People #Odd

...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
-- Jim Fergus

#Book #Thinking #Odd

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?
-- Joel Salatin

#People #House #Odd

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.
-- John Hawkes

#Talking #Interviews #Odd

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.
-- John Prine

#America #Odd #Songwriting

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

#Men #Connections #Odd

Tis true my form is something odd, but blaming me is blaming God.
-- Joseph Merrick

#Blame #Odd #Form

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
-- Josephine Hart

#Age #Lucky #Odd

I thought again how odd it was to be on formal terms with someone you had once permitted to lick your ears.
-- Josh Lanyon

#Ears #Odd #Formal

The truth will make you odd.
-- Judy Blume

#Truth #Odd

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 #Odd

I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
-- Julian McMahon

#Father #Odd #Prime

I find American behaviour...odd
-- Kate Beckinsale

#Behaviour #Odd

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

#Odd #Reason #Filmmaker

I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive.
-- Kim Harrison

#Years #Odd #Microwaves

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
-- Laura Wade

#Odd #Playwright

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.
-- Lewis Black

#Writing #Stuff #Odd

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.
-- Liam Neeson

#Onions #Dinner #Odd

I am the odd man out in the family.
-- Loni Anderson

#Men #Odd

I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
-- Lord Mountbatten

#Jobs #Men #Odd

I was in tailoring business, I sold flowers on the street, I worked construction and many odd jobs.
-- Manny Pacquiao

#Jobs #Flower #Odd

It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
-- Marcus Buckingham

#Names #America #Odd

Richard liked to say he picked things up for a song, which was odd, because he never sang. He never even whistled. He was not a musical person.
-- Margaret Atwood

#Music #Song #Odd

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.
-- Marina and the Diamonds

#Artist #Odd

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Oddities #Littles #Odd

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…
-- Mary Downing Hahn

#Years #Odd

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.
-- Matthew Macfadyen

#Hate #Odd #Notice Me

It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.
-- Matthew Macfadyen

#Hate #Odd #Anonymity

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
-- Maud Adams

#People #Odd #Hometown

It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.
-- Maureen Daly

#Morning #Alive #Odd

I’d rather be happy and odd than miserable and ordinary.
-- Michelle Magorian

#Ordinary #Miserable #Odd

How odd, that light should prevent one from seeing.
-- Michelle Paver

#Light #Odd #Should

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

#People #Way #Odd

I have this odd tendency to be really sarcastic when I'm uncomfortable and I don't really know why but it just comes out and it's come out since I was a child.
-- Mila Kunis

#Sarcastic #Children #Odd

It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?
-- Mira Grant

#Laughing #Odd

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

#Hollywood #Crowds #Odd

. . . 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.
-- Muriel Barbery

#Despair #Odd #Moments

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.
-- Nicola Sturgeon

#Balance #Action #Odd

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

#Degrees #Odd

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

#Rare Moments #Impossible #Odd

I'm just a regular dude with an odd job.
-- Pat Barry

#Jobs #Mma #Odd

Thoughts are odd misfires.
-- Patricia Cornwell

#Odd

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
-- Patsy Kelly

#Years #Odd #Show Business