Odd Things Quotes - Page 3

• It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  People, Black, Gold

  Patricia A. McKillip (2015). “The Changeling Sea”, p.68, Hachette UK

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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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• It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Equality, Disagree, Universe

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• Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad.

  John Corbett

  Tired, Winning, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization in mentioned: little or nothing.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Civilization, Mind, Littles

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• But I think it's also hard to get into soccer here. I think purely on a time level on television as well because of the ad breaks. It's something to do with that as well. You can't show a complete soccer match here. Which I kind of find a bit of an odd thing.

  Parminder Nagra

  Soccer, Thinking, Television

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.. It seemed so natural, to talk to him about odd things. She had never done that before. The trust, so sudden and yet so complete, and the intimacy, frightened her.. But now she could think only of all the things she yet wanted to tell him, wanted to do with him.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Thinking, Self, Skins

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• In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.

  William Golding

  India, Floating, Fifty

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• I don't teach writing. I teach patience. Toughness. Stubbornness. The willingness to fail. I teach the life. The odd thing is most of the things that stop an inexperienced writer are so far from the truth as to be nearly beside the point. When you feel glosbal doubt about your talent, that is your talent. People who have no talent don't have any doubt.

  Richard Bausch

  Writing, People, Doubt

  "Off the Page: Richard Bausch". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. November 20, 2003.

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• One does odd things. You see, when one's young one doesn't feel part of it yet, the human condition; one does things because they are not “for good”; one thinks everything is a rehearsal - to be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

  Sybille Bedford

  Thinking, One Day, Rehearsal

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• The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Odd, These Days

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

  Patricia Briggs

  Time, Gone, Moments

  Patricia Briggs (2005). “Raven's Strike”, p.186, Penguin

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• Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.

  Matt Damon

  Next Day, Yesterday, One Day

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• No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Unique, Profound, Pills

  Frederick K. Goodwin, Kay Redfield Jamison (2007). “Manic-Depressive Illness: Bipolar Disorders and Recurrent Depression”, p.869, Oxford University Press

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• The odd thing in this world is that an eager-beaver type, with no original ideas, who mimes those in authority above him right to the last twist of necktie and scrape of chin, always gets noticed. Gets selected. Rises.

  Philip K. Dick

  Ideas, Twists, World

  Philip K. Dick (2012). “Time Out of Joint”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you consider it from a human perspective, and clearly it would be difficult for us to do otherwise, life is an odd thing. It couldn't wait to get going, but then, having gotten going, it seemed in very little hurry to move on.

  Bill Bryson

  Moving, Perspective, Waiting

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.308, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye. "There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.

  Robert Jordan

  Eye, Hands, Disease

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• Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

  Jay Asher

  Giving Up, Sorry, Don't Give Up

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.253, Penguin

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• The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

  David Small

  Dream, Matter, Surprise

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• I added to my mental list of the odd things I'd done that day. I'd entertained the police, sunbathed, visited at a mall with some fairies, weeded and killed someone. Now it was powdered-corpse removal time. And the day wasn't over yet.

  Charlaine Harris

  Police, Done, Lists

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.96, Penguin

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• The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

  Donita K. Paul

  Father, Self, Kale

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• Thomas swallowed, wondering how he could ever go out there. His desire to become a Runner had taken a major blow. But he had to do it. Somehow he KNEW he had to do it. It was such an odd thing to feel, especially after what he'd just seen... Thomas knew he was a smart kid- he somehow felt it in his bones. But nothing about this place made any sense. Except for one thing. He was supposed to be a Runner. Why did he feel that so strongly? And even now, after seeing what lived in the maze?

  James Dashner

  Smart, Taken, Kids

  James Dashner (2009). “The Maze Runner (Maze Runner, Book One): Book One”, p.39, Delacorte Press

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• It's an odd thing about love. When someone you love cries, your heart melts. But when someone you don't love cries, you look at them and think, Why are you telling 'me' this?

  Jude Deveraux

  Heart, Thinking, Looks

  Jude Deveraux (2012). “Wild Orchids”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• But the law is an odd thing. For instance, one country in Europe has a law that requires all its bakers to sell bread at the exact same price. A certain island has a law that forbids anyone from removing its fruit. And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Europe, Law

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• We must take our sentences seriously, which means we must understand them philosophically, and the odd thing is that the few who do, who take them with utter sober seriousness, the utter sober seriousness of right-wing parsons and political saviors, the owners of Pomeranians, are the liars who want to be believed, the novelists and poets, who know that the creatures they imagine have no other being than the sounding syllables which the reader will speak into his own weary and distracted head. There are no magic words. To say the words is magical enough.

  William H. Gass

  Liars, Mean, Wings

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