Top 32 Quotes About Oddness
#1. He resented our oddness without the rest of the equation. He felt left out even though he knew the stories of the origins. By the transitive property, he shouldn't have liked her since he didn't like her handiwork, but somehow he stubbornly never did that math.
Jamie Mason
#2. She was the reason I was a reader, and being a reader was what had made me most myself; it had given me the gifts of curiosity and sympathy, an awareness of the world as an odd and vibrant contradictory place, and it had me unafraid of its oddness and vibrancy and contradictions.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#3. Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."
Fleur Adcock
#4. I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.
Jasper Fforde
#6. The stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius.
Amy Lowell
#7. His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.
Jamie O'Neill
#8. A person can spend every day of his life finding examples of our spectacular oddness, and if that's what he likes to do, then his life is destined to be full and rich.
Robert Reed
#9. We believe that many Christians do not fully appreciate the odd way in which the church, when it is most faithful, goes about its business. We want to claim the church's "oddness" as essential to its faithfulness.
Stanley Hauerwas
#10. Never shield your oddness, but wear your oddness as a shield.
Sarra Manning
#11. The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of the Monad - oddness, perfection, proportionality, unification, limit.
Iamblichus
#12. Accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.
Elizabeth Goudge
#13. She was actively frightened of imparting confidences, because she feared that they might betray the world of oddness that lived inside her
J.K. Rowling
#14. I like seals," he said to me, as if to excuse the apparent oddness of his taking the au pair to the zoo. Hmmm.
Meg Cabot
#15. Mother didn't care for the oddness of Alice; she wasn't a parent who was predisposed to liking her children. She didn't find their quirks endearing.
Tahereh Mafi
#16. He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.
Umberto Eco
#17. When you make weirdness into a puzzle to be solved, you make LOST
Joseph Fink
#18. Me a Basseri legend? Saints, how sad must their lives be if I was the best thing they had to talk about?
Janice Hardy
#19. The Inuit say that the stars are holes in heaven. And every time we see the people we loved shining through, we know they're happy.
Jodi Picoult
#20. Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.
Marcus Buckingham
#21. It might interest you that just as the U.S. was ramping up its involvement in Vietnam, LBJ launched an illegal invasion of the Dominican Republic (April 28, 1965). (Santo Domingo was Iraq before Iraq was Iraq.)
Junot Diaz
#22. When we talk about genes for anything, like a gene for being gay or a gene for being aggressive or something of that sort, that a gene for anything may not have been a gene for that thing under different environmental conditions.
Richard Dawkins
#23. I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#24. I've played drums in bands since I was 16.
Miles Teller
#25. This is the only sane clerical the earthquake has exposed to view yet.
Mark Twain
#26. I'd just done the most important thing a person can ever do. I'd made life. At the very instant he was put into my arms, I loved this new person more than anyone but a mother can understand.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#27. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.
Crystal Woods
#28. During my MFA, I was lucky to be surrounded by a really supportive group of peers. And now I get feedback pretty exclusively from freaks only.
Alissa Nutting
#29. I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
Elliott Abrams
#30. I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#31. I pretended to be a Cheyenne guide. I pretended to be a prairie woman. I pretended Henry was my old-timey husband taking me to our new homestead. I leaned down and patted Trouble's neck. "Good boy," I said. "Trusty steed.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#32. launched his "Think Different" campaign, featuring iconic
Walter Isaacson
