Oddities quotes:

Send

The things that stand out are often the oddities. -- Pierre Salinger
One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms. -- Lorna Luft
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. -- Molly Ivins
I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other. -- Chris Ware
I'm interested in things when I don't know what they are. Like "Hey, Ray, what the hell is this?" Oh, that's lipstick from the 1700s, that's dog food from the turn of the century, that's a hat from World War II. I'm interested in the minutiae of things. Oddities. -- Tom Waits
Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. -- Trevor Baylis
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. -- Martha Plimpton
I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity. -- Sandra Bullock
More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. -- Michel De Certeau
Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard". -- Russell Brand
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. -- Marilyn Hacker
Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky. -- Cecilia Dart-Thornton
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. -- Eugene Mirman
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action. -- Rex Stout
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity. -- Roy Lichtenstein
I've been following him since Space Oddity. And I've followed him from all those albums that didn't sell, like The Man Who Sold The World and things like that. Above all, apart from all the glamorous rubbish, the music's there. Ziggy Stardust is a classic album. -- Elton John
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families. -- Mark Haddon
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. ... It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. -- Enid Bagnold
I've always had an eye for the oddities in life. -- Nikki Sixx
Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life. -- Bob Newhart
In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of the greatest oddities may be that there is not a livelier discussion about the individual's basic need for a more private space. -- Lily Koppel
I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches. -- Ze Frank
That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons. -- Don Yaeger
This is the age of oddities let loose. -- Lord Byron
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. -- Douglas Adams
Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. -- Molly Ivins
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities. -- Charlotte Bronte
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Las Vegas, Nevada: A city where oddities don't make you lame, But instead bring you riches and fortune and fame. -- Walter Wykes
Surrealism can only deliver a reactionary judgment; can make out of history only an accumulation of oddities, a joke, a death trip. -- Susan Sontag
Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
You either get Norfolk, with its wild roughness and uncultivated oddities, or you don't. It's not all soft and lovely. It doesn't ask to be loved. -- Stephen Fry
One of the oddities of this election is the man that [Donald] Trump chose as his vice-president, Mike Pence, is one of the Kochs' favourite politicians. -- Jane Mayer
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said. -- Louis Menand
That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities. -- Edgar Allan Poe
--

Send