(362 quotes found)
“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
“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
“On Louis Theroux: He's quiet, gangly and teases people into saying very odd things. Whatever he's got, they should bottle it.”
Chris Tarrant
“The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train”
Paul Dickson
“And Something's odd - within -That person that I was - And this One - do not feel the same - Could it be Madness - this?"”
Emily Dickinson
“In an odd way, all the appliances that the advertisers put out there, and said, `Buy this brand-new stove!', `Buy the fridge!' `Make Jell-O!', all that horrible nutrition that came up because of instant pudding, Jell-O, fish sticks, TV dinners, all of that that I had before dismissed as the death of our culture -- I realized that housewives wanted these things, because they wanted time back, ... A washing machine gave them time to do something else. It gave them time to read a book. ... A woman didn't want to cook all day. These things that were sold to Americans were actually a gift, in a very strange way. I really enjoyed having to blow that notion out of my head.”
Jane Anderson
“I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.”
James Woods
“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.”
Jesse Jackson
“The stars, I see, will kiss the valleys first: The odds for high and low's alike”
William Shakespeare
“It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing.”
Warren E. Burger
