“You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar, such as Ibsen and Wagner, and things that seemed crazy when they were new and seem crazy now, like Finnegans Wake and Picasso.”
Philip Larkin
“Certainly these high prices seem excessive, but there is no saying when rationality will return. It seems odd that [metals] prices have climbed as much as they have given only limited changes in the fundamentals.”
William Adams
“It just seems so odd, so surreal. I'm still like, 'I don't believe it.' When I saw it flash on the television -- 1961 to 2004 -- I was just like, 'I'm not going to try to fight back any more tears. I'm just going to cry.”
Eugene Robinson
“When you look at a system that's outside of something that you're most familiar with, there seems to be some mystery attached to it, ... when in fact, it really is pretty simple.”
Joe Tiller
“The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.”
Mal Pancoast
“Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.”
Benjamin Franklin
“It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.”
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
