Odd Quotes - Page 25

• I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

  Danny Elfman

  Thinking, Differences, Understanding

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

  Jacques Rivette

  Filmmaker

  "Tributes to French New Wave Master Jacques Rivette, Dead at 87" by Sam Adams, www.indiewire.com. January 29, 2016.

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• A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype

  Jean Michel Jarre

  Stereotype, Chic, Rough

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• Sometimes its odd to interact with someone to whom you purposed.

  Amardeep Singh

  Sometimes

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• If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.

  Jan Hellriegel

  Resilience, Bumps, Shapes

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• I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Fighting, Reality, Ordinary

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• Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled with historical curiosities and esoteric advice, the book explains legends, the paranormal, and the people who experience the fringe. Have fun, but don't get too close this book may be contagious.

  Jeff Belanger

  Fun, Book, Rose

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• Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

  Larry Wall

  Thinking, Definitions

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• It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

  Pauline Hanson

  Party, Thinking, Views

  "Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech". www.sbs.com.au. July 19, 2016.

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• I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

  Alan Parker

  Thinking, Feelings, Tvs

  "Alan Parker: 'I like the craziness of the film set'". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2013.

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• The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

  George Orwell

  Country, Real, Book

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Elephants, Plot, Trunks

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• What an odd, ruminating, noisy, self-interrupting conversation we conduct with ourselves from birth to death.

  Diane Ackerman

  Self, Birth, Conversation

  Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial Egyptian anthem "Bokra, Insha'allah, Malesh" (Tomorrow, God Willing, Never Mind) isn't just an excuse for laziness. In a society requiring millennial patience, it is also a social code dictating that no one make too much of a fuss about things. But put an Egyptian in the driver's seat and he shows all the calm and consideration of a hooded swordsman delivering Islamic justice.

  Tony Horwitz

  Islamic, Justice, Car

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  Laura Mennell

  Hands, Opposites, Trying

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• Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don't work that way. French? Dieu! Misplace a single le or la and an idea vaporizes into a sonic puff. English is flexible: you can jam it into a Cuisinart for an hour, remove it, and meaning will still emerge.

  Douglas Coupland

  Ideas, Odd Things, Jam

  Douglas Coupland (2009). “Generation A: A Novel”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• 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, Minutes, Ifs

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• I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Thinking, Issues, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Development, May, Company

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.7, Hayes Barton Press

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

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Way, Feels

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

  Gore Vidal

  Family, Suffering, Together

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

  Anne Tyler

  Death, Body, Clear

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• It is a funny thing what the brain will do with memories and how it will treasure them and finally bring them into odd juxtapositions with other things, as though it wanted to make a design, or get some meaning out of them, whether you want it or not, or even see it.

  Loren Eiseley

  Memories, Funny Things, Design

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• I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Believe, Voice, Quirky

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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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