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Quotes About Odd

It seems odd that as far as I know nobody has yet been murdered for having too perfect a character! And yet perfection is undoubtedly an irritating thing!
~ Agatha Christie
Modern novels. So difficult—all about such unpleasant people, doing such very odd things and not, apparently, even enjoying them. "Sex" as a word had not been mentioned in Miss Marple's young days; but there had been plenty of it—not talked about so much—but enjoyed far more than nowadays, or so it seemed to her. Though usually labelled Sin, she couldn't help feeling that that was preferable to what it seemed to be nowadays—a kind of Duty.
~ Agatha Christie
Yes, my friend—it is odd—and laughable—and terrible! I, who do not approve of murder—I, who value human life—have ended my career by committing murder.
~ Agatha Christie
It was an exceedingly odd thing to see an elephant in a spacesuit.
~ Alastair Reynolds
It was a very odd household, because the grandmothers were so different. Both of them had their own pianos. So it would be duelling pianos by grandmothers.
~ Diane Cilento
He's a couple sandwiches short of a picnic.
~ Lance Bass
We had all these smiley family pictures all over the walls of my house, but I always found those pictures to be odd because we weren't smiling all the time. I don't want to paint the picture of a total dysfunctional house, but there were a lot of arguments in that house. A lot of pain.
~ Derek Cianfrance
For whatever reason, I enjoy eating soggy cereal.
~ Jason Dolley
One of my favorite things about the DC Universe, growing up as a reader, was just how big it was and just how many characters and superheroes there were. And how many odd characters there were.
~ Jeff Lemire
Even the slightest deja vu are supernatural incidents.
~ Sushmita Sen
There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
~ Robert Wilson Lynd
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
~ Martin Rees
It's odd how a piece of ground can hold so little of its meaning; though that's lucky, since for it to do so would make places sacred but impenetrable, whereas they're otherwise neither.
~ Richard Ford
No, I was an odder old fool, grafting pathetic hopes of affection onto the least likely recipient in the world.
~ Julian Barnes
There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it's the odd good one that makes a big difference.
~ Karl Pilkington
from the ceiling but made little difference. I sat wondering if it was part of Brazilian tradition to invite someone to stay but then fuck off out for the evening. Seems a bit odd to me. I
~ Karl Pilkington
You're a very odd man," said Bert. "I get that more often than you'd think," replied Charles.
~ James A. Owen
I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd.
~ Joanna Page
If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.
~ Mitch Hedberg
People are strange when you're a stranger.
~ Jim Morrison
It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.
~ Oliver Sacks
Things began happening with odd synchronicity, as if the universe itself was conspiring on behalf of their love story.
~ John Mark Green
Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.
~ Philip José Farmer
The "public" does not work—a sentence like "most of the American public works in the service industry" would never appear in a magazine or paper, and if a journalist were to attempt to write such a sentence, her editor would certainly change it to something else. It is especially odd since the public does apparently have to go to work:
~ David Graeber