Odd Quotes
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Memory is the seamstress, and a capricious one at that. Memory runs her needle in and out, up and down, hither and thither. We know not what comes next, or what follows after. Thus, the most ordinary movement in the world, such as sitting down at a table and pulling the inkstand towards one, may agitate a thousand odd, disconnected fragments, now bright, now dim, hanging and bobbing and dipping and flaunting, like the underlinen of a family of fourteen on a line in a gale of wind.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I have Tom Ford, Gucci, Saint Laurent, McQueen, and odd pieces that I've just acquired because I happened to have come across them and felt they have some historical resonance.
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Odd's fish, m'dear! The man can't even tie his own cravat!
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.
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It was just really odd to be in a room with Ian McKellen sharing cucumber sandwiches.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.
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The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.
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I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.
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The odd thing about 'Cripple of Inishmaan' is it's never actually been performed on the island.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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'ReadyMade''s first three issues dished out instructions for all sorts of kitschy crafts and odd projects: homemade wallets, Adirondack chairs, even taxidermy.
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In India the odd thing is that English is this almost artificial language floating on the surface of a place with about fifty other languages. The same is true of Nigeria but even more so.
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I've had such an odd career.
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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I love playing odd roles.
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[On the United States:] We are a wildly energetic people in our pursuit of pleasure, let alone in our pursuit of money, and we are very odd to look at as we go about our lives.
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Texas is as odd as it is vast.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
