The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
Even if we remember the past, odds are good we'll still repeat it.
I know I'm funny, because I'm eccentric, I'm odd. I'm not what you expect.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
It's an odd beast, fame. It's got multiple personalities.
I was momentarily stunned by his odd announcement and told him as much. "Let’s just talk about the fact that you composed a sonnet to my vagina, shall we? You are sending off some major stalker vibes, which is odd because you’re gay. You gay, rig...
He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed at. He wondered for the first time about all the people who'd gone before those heroes, about whether they'd been a...
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live ...
It's odd to imagine, of course: you pass a car on a lonely rural highway; you sit beside a man in a diner and share views with him; you wait behind a customer checking into a motel, a friendly man with a winning smile and twinkling hazel eyes, who's ...
I think locality exercises strange influence over some minds. The peaceful meadow-scenery holds no lurking horrors in its bosom, but in the lonesome moorlands, full of curiously molded boulders, grotesque fancies must assail one there. Creatures seem...
Major Hughes: Jennings has a plan, sir. He seems to think... Colonel Nicholson: Yes, I'm sure Jennings has a plan. But escape? Where, into this jungle? That fellow Saito was right: no need for barbed wire or fence, one chance in a hundred of survival...
A broken thing can't fix itself.
Sometimes, when confronting the odds, the war is already won.
I was like a thought slipping through the fissures...
'Arbitrary' and 'odd' are the words which best describe the pattern of my career. I'm perpetually baffled by the whole thing.
I'm a hard-nosed businessman, that if a company is paying its way, increasing profits for thirty-odd consecutive years, you don't put it into receivership.
It's fun for me to play people that are just kind of odd.
I suppose you can say I became an odd-job man.
It's only life. We all get through it.
