Odd Quotes - Page 40

• What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of a dog." He made a show of considering the picture and nodded seriously. "An astute observation.

  Sarah MacLean

  Dog, Thinking, Looks

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• He was wearing a look that she found odd and compelling - that amusement that didn’t seem to pass beyond the surface of his features, as he found everything in the world both infinitely funny and infinitely tragic all at the same time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Looks, World, Amusement

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.91, 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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• I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

  Ally Carter

  Children, Glasses, Knowing

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Curiosity, World, Vibrancy

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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, Odd Things

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

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• 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, Knows

  Mary Downing Hahn (2010). “The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some of the fae have an odd idea of bride send-offs," he explained "including, according to Zee, kidnapping." "I forgot about that." And I was appalled because I knew better. "Bran and Samuel are probably more of a danger than any of the fae," I told him. "Someday, I'll tell you about some of the more spectaculare wedding antics Samuel's told me about." Some of them made kidnapping look mild.

  Patricia Briggs

  Ideas, Looks, Fae

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• You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Thinking, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Jeeves And The Tie That Binds”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fun, Children, Discovery

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.552, Hamilton Books

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• Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Taken, People, Political

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• Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.

  Novak Djokovic

  Anger, Long, Proud

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• It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.

  Barbara Pym

  Mind, Important, Found

  Barbara Pym (2013). “An Unsuitable Attachment”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

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• I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?

  Bill Hicks

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

  "Bill Hicks: Relentless". Documentary, Comedy, 1992.

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• I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.

  Shirley Manson

  Odd One, Garbage, Outsiders

  Source: www.spin.com

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• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Broadway Theatre, Feelings

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.

  David Sedaris

  Art, Believe, School

  "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

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• People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams.

  Steve Coogan

  Nice, Shopping, People

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• The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.

  Hamid Drake

  Together, World, Musician

  Source: the-attic.net

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• I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.

  Dolly Parton

  Hurt, Kids, Thinking

  "New Again: Dolly Parton". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.

  Michael Scott

  Writing, Mean, Advice

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• Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Children, Clever, Kids

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• The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Thinking, Stories, Way

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• I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

  George Saunders

  Stories, Kind, Mood

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• Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

  Elvis Costello

  Writing, Keys, Talking

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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