Oddest Quotes

#1. A story can start from the oddest things: a magic lamp, a conversation overheard, a shadow moving on a wall.

Ahdaf Soueif

#2. Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions

Louisa May Alcott

#3. Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the oddest: that kids have an inordinate appetite for very long, very tricky, very strange books about places that don't exist.

Adam Gopnik

#4. She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.

Mohsin Hamid

#5. Due to not getting pumped regular, females take the oddest fancies, such as imagining they can think.

Loretta Chase

#6. I got mugged about six months ago. The oddest thing about the entire situation, though, was that I wasn't afraid, which is strange because basically I experience my life through two primary emotions: fear and suppressed fear.

Dana Gould

#7. No. I've always been drawn to broken, wild terrain. The oddest tongues come from such places, and the strangest mythologies, and the oldest cities, and the most barbarous religions

Donna Tartt

#8. she couldn't find a decent job without references at the age of nineteen had grown and grown, until she became a headhunter for the oddest and most elite array of clientele. She had an absolute genius for bringing the right people together. In the

Joanne Reid

#9. I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

Jane Austen

#10. One of the oddest things in life, as we all know, is the way that when you have heard a thing mentioned, within twenty-four hours you nearly always come across it again.

Agatha Christie

#11. Perhaps the oddest meeting was when Dr. Dre came to visit Jobs at Apple headquarters. Jobs loved the Beatles

Walter Isaacson

#12. While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did.

Bill Murray

#13. I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

Tamora Pierce

#14. For the D-Day spies were, without question, one of the oddest military units ever assembled. They included a bisexual Peruvian playgirl, a tiny Polish fighter pilot, a mercurial Frenchwoman, a Serbian seducer, and a deeply eccentric Spaniard with a diploma in chicken farming.

Ben Macintyre

#15. The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap.

Colum McCann

#16. Women are difficult enough to understand, he thought, and I had to go and pick the oddest one of the lot.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. One finds nobility in the oddest places.

Cassandra Clare

#18. You know what may be the oddest thing about being a star? Stars have an effect on people. It's a responsibility, and it's frightening.

Andie MacDowell

#19. Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

Colum McCann

#20. Somebody," said Jacques, "your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour - and in the oddest places! - for the lack of it.

James Baldwin

#21. It was the oddest feeling. I thought Laci Peterson needed me; I thought she was counting on me to bring her and her baby home.

Amber Frey

#22. Ideas take root at the oddest moments. Some grow into novels, the weaker ones wither and die.

Pippa DaCosta

#23. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.

G.K. Chesterton

#24. I could safely say that this was the oddest situation I had ever been in: trying to use a magical power to heal a strange, half-naked man in his bedroom.

Kelly Zekas

#25. Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.

Kim Harrison

#26. You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.

Audrey Niffenegger

#27. To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#28. It's always better if you're next door. Ideas come up at the oddest times. They don't always come up in a conference call.

John Scott

#29. Cats can be very funny, and have the oddest ways of showing they're glad to see you ...

W. H. Auden

#30. It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

Christian Morgenstern

#31. Walking down Belmotte was the oddest sensation
every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our heads. It was like being drowned in the ghost of water.

Dodie Smith

#32. And yet, as Verena watched her turn back to the dusting, she had the curious sensation that positions had been reversed in the oddest fashion. The girl was the one telling her to go away, it was her house and Verena was the maid.

Kate Williams

#33. It's the oddest match: Mary J. Blige and Julianne Hough! But we became so close.

Julianne Hough

#34. But women- this I will never understand- they are touched by the oddest things

Richard C. Morais

#35. Blue eyes held hers. "I have the oddest desire to learn what you want from life," he continued.

Suzanne Enoch

#36. For, to a child, the oddest of things, and the most richly coloured picture-book, is that his mother was once a child also.

J.M. Barrie

#37. People have a habit of doing everyday things even under the oddest conditions.

Harper Lee

#38. The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

Stephen Fry

#39. Lust is absurd. It strikes in the strangest places at the oddest times. She doesn't even realize she's feeling it. She's erected a barricade of propriety and lies between us. I despise the type of woman she is. I loathe her soft pink innocence. My body doesn't concur. I wonder why her?

Karen Marie Moning

#40. People who are servants-humbly, honestly, and joyfully-keep getting revealed as the biggest winners. People who recognize and embrace their smallness keep getting bigger and bigger in God's eyes. It's the oddest scoring system.

John Ortberg

#41. She was the oddest combination of contradictions he'd ever met -innocence and sensuality, candour and diplomacy, anxiety and utter fearlessness. He hadn't even begun to figure out how her mind worked. But she was damn well going to live long enough for him to try.

Karen Chance

#42. Smiley was the oddest. You thought, to look at him, that he couldn't cross the road alone, but you might as well have offered protection to a hedgehog.

John Le Carre

#43. Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.

Pico Iyer

#44. Polly finished her huge narrative during the summer term. The day after she had finished it, she went round with the oddest mixture of feelings, pride at having got it done, sick of the sight of it and glad it was over, and completely lost without it.

Diana Wynne Jones

#45. No, love. You're the only one who has caused me to do the oddest things. You have truly poisoned me.

Maria V. Snyder

#46. I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.

Robert Webb

#47. One of the oddest things in life I think is the things one remembers.

Agatha Christie

#48. The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!

Michael Scott

#49. Men take the oddest satisfaction in feeling superior without knowing that most of the time they are being utterly predictable.

Paulo Coelho

#50. I had always had the oddest feeling, consider it knowledge, that if I were ever to find myself inside the cockpit of a 767 with two dead piolets and afew hundred passengers in the cabin behind me, I would absolutely be able to land the ninety-thousand-pound jet.

Augusten Burroughs

#51. One of the oddest things about being grown-up was looking back at something you thought you knew and finding out the truth of it was completely different from what you had always believed.

Patricia Briggs

#52. She's on the last few chapters of some book she's been reading. She can't stay away from it. We're used to it by now. We always find her reading at the oddest times. Don't we, babe? He says the last sentence a little louder to get her attention.

Jay McLean

#53. Unhappy people do the oddest, most terrible things, just trying to keep despair at bay. All you have to do is accept them ... go around them ... take evasive action.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#54. The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future,
the first syllable already belongs to the past.
When I pronounce the word Silence,
I destroy it.
When I pronounce the word nothing,
I make something no nonbeing can hold.

Wislawa Szymborska

#55. As Camus' reworking of the myth reveals, liberty can be found in the oddest of places - even Oran or Hades.

Robert Zaretsky

#56. The feeling she has is most unexpected. The oddest thing. She feels no distress or worry. Instead, she senses a dim, faint feeling that rises from some unknown place in her heart, rising slowly and blossoming into something that she might call relief.

Janice Y.K. Lee

#57. My flat is a bit like an oriental bazaar. It's filled with the oddest objects from all my travels, and you can't really move in it. I love collecting antiques and often spend weekends driving around bric-a-brac markets.

Mark Shand

#58. Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.

Lisa Samson

#59. Toward evening, Harriet found herself thinking the oddest thoughts: that twilight is not really dark. It's gray. The sun gone, the world turns gray, without emotion, without color. It seemed a fitting time for a little girl to slip free of all this pain, to let go.

Eloisa James