Odd Quotes - Page 24

• Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old.

  Buenaventura Durruti

  Art, Book, Ruins

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• When discussing organic evolution the only point of agreement seems to be: ‘It happened.’ Thereafter, there is little consensus, which at first sight must seem rather odd.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Sight, Agreement, Littles

  "Evolution: Bringing Molecules into the Fold". Work by Simon Conway Morris, January 7, 2000.

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• Like Godard, Tati is also remarkably appreciative of the odd beauty that can be revealed in the shapes, patterns and colors created by the technology of planned obsolescence.

  Vincent Canby

  Technology, Color, Shapes

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• Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly great programmers are like great poets or great mathematicians - they can achieve in a few lines what lesser mortals can only approach in three volumes

  John Naughton

  Intellectual, Three, Lines

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• I'm totally grateful for the fans my family has and I have; they gave me a lot of support when I was in treatment. But it was just odd, you know? It's stressful. Just the whole fact of being someone in the public eye.

  Jack Osbourne

  Grateful, Eye, Support

  "Jack Talks About His Addiction and Recovery". MTV.com, February 2003.

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• I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they are mathematically illiterate.

  David Mumford

  Pride, Math, People

  "Mathematics without Apologies: Portrait of a Problematic Vocation". Book by Michael Harris, 2015.

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

  Lord Mountbatten

  Jobs, Men, Odd Jobs

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• And if we seem nutty to you and if we seem like an odd ball to you, just remember one thing. The mighty oak tree was once a nut just like me.

  Glenn Turner

  Nuts, Tree, Balls

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• Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night through the cat door, the telephone call out of a friend's silence of years, the sudden greeting from the girl-child---we constantly make of ourselves our selves.

  Nancy Mairs

  Girl, Children, Cat

  Nancy Mairs (1992). “Plaintext”, University of Arizona Press

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• 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, Happens

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

  Robyn Davidson

  Home, Ideas, Voice

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• If we had the consciousness of a cat or a dog, we would have it in us to become perfect Zen masters. We could gnaw on a bone, take a nap, play with a spider until we killed it, get our litter just right, and be innocently and serenely present. Meaning would mean nothing to us, nor would we need it to mean anything. We would be free, and we would be spared. But, we are human beings, and we posses that odd duck – human consciousness.

  Eric Maisel

  Dog, Mean, Cat

  Eric Maisel, PhD (2012). “The Van Gogh Blues: The Creative Person s Path Through Depression”, p.65, New World Library

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• My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

  Renata Adler

  Good Times, Capacity, Surface

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.15, New York Review of Books

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• 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, Hopeless, Purity

  Derek Jarman (2010). “At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament”

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• 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 fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of reach on the other side.

  John Gierach

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2011). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Positive Atheism, Ifs

  Archibald MacLeish (1958). “J. B.”

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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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• I've had such an odd career.

  Sally Field

  Careers

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