Quotes About Odd Numbers

#1. Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Swami Vivekananda

#2. The hypocrisy seems pathological among the stars. And yet we desperately want to believe Armstrong is immune to dishonesty in the same way everyone wanted to grant McGwire a pass in 1998.

Selena Roberts

#3. Good luck lies in odd numbers.

William Shakespeare

#4. This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare

#5. I don't want to reject my life. I want to change my life without changing my life.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. I have faith in the United States and our ability to make good decisions based on the facts.

Al Gore

#7. African narratives in the West, they proliferate. I really don't care anymore. I'm more interested in the stories we tell about ourselves - how, as a writer, I find that African writers have always been the curators of our humanity on this continent.

Chris Abani

#8. I can show you that the art of calculation has to do with odd and even numbers in their numerical relations to themselves and to each other.

Plato

#9. Ross Brawn knows that I prefer to have odd race numbers.

Michael Schumacher

#10. Round numbers beg to be negotiated, usually by counteroffer round numbers. Odd numbers sound harder, firmer, less negotiable.

Mark McCormack

#11. Not everyone expects to have to kill someone every moment of every day. Bedeckt

Michael R. Fletcher

#12. The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to hold flowers and too small to hold spies.

Lemony Snicket

#13. They say everything looks better with odd numbers of things. But sometimes I put even numbers - just to upset the critics.

Bob Ross

#14. Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?

Pliny The Elder

#15. I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath

#16. Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?

Pliny The Elder

#17. Traditionally, even numbers of flowers are only suitable for funerals and cemeteries. For all other occasions, Russians use an odd number of flowers.

Julia Gousseva

#18. I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise.

Dean Koontz

#19. He heard a sickening thunk, his head twisting to the side just in time to see that Darnell had a five-inch-long dart sticking out of his shoulder, its thin metal shaft planted deep within the muscle. Blood trickled down from the wound. The boy made a strange grunt as he collapsed to the ground.

James Dashner

#20. In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

James Fenton