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Quotes About Odd

'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as a repeated surprise even to readers who have read it before.
~ Jane Smiley
I try not to push characters too close to myself because they get harder to write, but as a writer, you try to find odd little personal experiences that you hope are universal or think might be universal.
~ Tom King
Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
~ Zoe Lister-Jones
I think a lot of young women are probably fearful or embarrassed or cautious or hiding whatever their particular sexuality might be. From the most odd to the just slightly abberrant.
~ Steven Shainberg
The first time I ever met Stephen King, he came up to me, and we went to shake hands, and he had, like, this fake rubber rat that he kind of, you know, shook at me. You know, and I said, 'No, this is a cliche - this can't be. Stephen King is trying to scare me with a fake rat?' It was just really weird.
~ Rob Reiner
Over this odd world, this half the world that's dark now, I have to hunt a thing that lives on tears.
~ Thomas Harris
We all know interspecies romance is weird.
~ Tim Burton
One of the odder byways of nonfiction is the dishy memoir by those who have served the great or the near-great.
~ Robert Gottlieb
I have a strange nose: it's big and weird.
~ Nish Kumar
Most politicians are pigs...It's a funny thing about pigs...They have an odd way of keeping warm in winter if they find themselves outside. You see, pigs don't know if they're cold, provided their nose is warm. So they stand around in a circle with their nose between the hind legs of the pig in front of them. Would you call that a curious relationship?...I would call that a Satanic relationship.
~ Norman Mailer
Qué extraños lectores son ustedes, qué extraño país es este.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Well, one thing's for sure, they're very strange names, and that's putting it mildly.
~ Cornelia Funke
Ordinarily, of course, I thought it best to remain inconspicuous, but the gesture had a certain irresistable theatricaility, and an inevitablility. Sometimes you can feel the pull of what other people want from you, and you sacrifice yourself, you risk seeming odd or sunsavory, to keep them entertained.
~ Curtis Sittenfeld
For she was a creature of odd whims and unsatisfied tendencies.
~ D. H. Lawrence
From the first instant, Kate respected her for her isolation and her dauntless. The world is made up of a mass of people and a few individuals. Mrs. Norris was one of the few individuals. True, she played her social game all the time. But she was an odd number; and all alone, she could give the even numbers a bad time.
~ D.H. Lawrence
I'm the king of designer fashion, Looking stylish is my passion. Ice Blue's the name of my fashion line, The designs are fabulous and they're all mine! Some people think my clothes are odd, But I will get the fashion world's nod. Fashion Fairy magic will make my dream come true
~ Daisy Meadows
That seemed a bit odd. I didn't yet know that taking a long walk was his preferred way to have a serious conversation. It turned out
~ Walter Isaacson
Borrowers of books — those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
~ Charles Lamb
Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
~ Charles Lamb
I mean your borrowers of books - those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.
~ Charles Lamb
A shell missed me outside Albert and did for my watch. I could shake it, and it would tick for a bit, but the spring was gone. I've an idea I don't grow any older now, and when I come to die, it'll seem an odd, out-of-date sort of catastrophe.
~ Harley Granville Barker
Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.
~ Lemony Snicket
The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.
~ Lemony Snicket