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Quotes About Odd

I was shocked. They were going to give me money to make this really odd show? Well, I still had little thought of it going to series, but I thought it was great that my next short film was going to be paid for.
~ Joe Murray
I'm into using acrylic, in a complicated kind of way: Making it just as good as oil paint - better, maybe. It's odd - when I started out, acrylic was for children, pretty much. It was a cheaper paint. It wasn't supposed to look very good or last very long.
~ Peter Saul
Lucy Payne was definitely a sausage or two short of the full English breakfast.
~ Peter Robinson
It's always seemed odd to me that nonfiction is defined, not by what it is, but by what it is not. It is not fiction. But then again, it is also not poetry, or technical writing or libretto. It's like defining classical music as nonjazz.
~ Philip Gerard
It struck her as odd and faintly sinister, this lonely city creeping north in silence.
~ Philip Reeve
Saintliness is very odd. When people encounter it, they often take it for something else, something completely unlike it: indifference, mockery, scheming, coldness, insolence, perhaps even contempt. But they're mistaken, and that makes them furious. They commit an awful crime. This is doubtless the reason why most saints end up as martyrs.
~ Philippe Claudel
I don't think he ever hung out with any of the employees after work or anything. When he talked, he was always going on about trees and nature and weird stuff like that. We all thought he was missing a few screws.
~ Jon Krakauer
the rational world, your world, was a still pond and Petter's brain was a jagged rock thrown into it, creating odd ripples everywhere.
~ Jon Ronson
I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
~ Iggy Pop
I'm a peculiar type.
~ Andre Villas-Boas
There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really peculiar in America. And then when you tell them, they're not interested, because it's also a country where everybody's opinion is their opinion, and they really don't give a damn what you think. So it's a very odd experience.
~ Zadie Smith
I'm very peculiar looking.
~ Josh Thomas
I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
~ Lana Parrilla
Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
~ Pliny (the Elder)
Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
~ Pliny (the Elder)
Or is it that of all numbers nine is the first square from the odd and perfect triad, while eight is the first cube from the even dyad? Now a man should be four-square, eminent, and perfect; but a woman, like a cube, should be stable, domestic, and difficult to remove from her place. And
~ Plutarch
A wizard," Long echoed, thoughtfully. "Odd word to use in connection with computers. I've always found there to be so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ flimflam about wizards, and I can't see how one could get away with that in computer engineering. But perhaps that's my own innocence.
~ R.A. MacAvoy
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
~ Henry Rollins
I've done a lot of odd jobs, including waitressing, which most actors have done. I was a busboy - girl - when I was younger and sold things at little fairs when I was younger. I mostly related the role to being a waitress and having to deal with customers. There are good people and some not-so-good people.
~ Jess Weixler
When people come up and tell me they're such a big fan, it's cool. But weird.
~ Jess Glynne
I'm sort of a strange bird.
~ Ann Bancroft
Every day is bizarre.
~ Mia Kirshner
I guess I'm kind of a sucker for the emotion of music. I guess it's kind of odd, but it's the way I appreciate music. I present my stuff that way as well.
~ Goldlink
The Sunday paper is an odd British cultural tradition.
~ Andrew Neil