Quotes of: Oddities Keyword

I've always had an eye for the oddities in life.

Nikki Sixx

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Pierre Salinger

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Sandra Bullock

...that realisation that I was the oddity, the statistical probability, life was predictable.

The Sacrificial Man

I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd.

Martha Plimpton

Here in these circuses and carnivals we all love each other with our oddities and queernesses.

Carnival: A Novel

It was tough for me at school... trying to blend in and get along with other kids. I was an oddity and kids are scared of things they don't understand.

Kimora Lee Simmons

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

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Clifford Geertz

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

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

My parents never told me I was beautiful, and for one very good reason. I wasn't. When your child is a tubby, bespectacled little oddity, as I was, it's important not to give them false expectations.

Laurie Graham

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

At the time, nobody knew what it was. It had no name. When everything else is out of your control, you can control your eating. You end up cutting a lot of things off. Nothing reaches you. I was very happy then - that was the oddity.

Susan Dey

Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain, boredom, and fear. We want to venture into the dark wood, to see the oddities and the beauties it holds, and to test ourselves against them. So ...

The Grimm Conclusion

Ours was not going to be a clone of the usual expeditions, oozing with sleekness. It was clear from the start that oddity was our advantage.

House of the Tiger King: The Quest for a Lost City

The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the general oddity of writers, no wonder there are no sure cures.

On Becoming a Novelist

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

There are only a few planets with life. It is an oddity. It is really difficult to have the necessary conditions not only to support life but also to maintain the life inside a planet.-Loto

The Guardians of the Earth Type Planets