Top 15 Odelike Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Odelike

#1. Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

Ben Hecht

#2. You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased.

Jane Austen

#3. We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable ...

Edna O'Brien

#4. Naomi looks at me, her orange-brown eyes rimmed in dark shadow flecked with silver sparkles. All of that darkness around the pop of color in her irises makes them seem huge, like two sunsets floating in a night sky. I smirk again. There I go getting all poetic; good for me.

C.M. Stunich

#5. The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there but no one else can see them. The world shrugs.

Matt Haig

#6. I want to tell her that because I want her to be happy. But I also know it's not true. And part of loving someone, part of being the recipient of trust, is telling the truth even when it's awful.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#7. For I mean to roam and think and make great irons red-hot.

Knut Hamsun

#8. There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.

B.C. Forbes

#9. Despite disappointments, the Christian is obligated to pray for the sick because we are bidden to do so and because the crumb of our caring is but a morsel broken from the whole loaf of the Father's infinite and tender love.

Catherine Marshall

#10. Last night they had said and done all those things, and now they were like strangers in a bus queue. The mistake she had made was to fall asleep and break the spell.

David Nicholls