Quotes of: Odds Keyword

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

Willem Dafoe

Any cut to Pell Grants means low-income must take out additional loans or work longer hours - risk factors that increase their odds of dropping out of school.

Hank Johnson

Grand Mage,” Ghastly said, as he put the map away, “did you know the sparrow flies south for the winter?” “What an odd thing to say,” Ravel said, and as he turned, he snapped his palm against the air and Paloma slammed into the wall.” …...

Kingdom of the Wicked

Life is a funny, funny thing. Not the ‘ha-ha’ kind of funny, but an odd kind of funny. The kind of funny that you know exists, yet you can’t place your finger on. You know it’s there, and when the funny strikes, you feel it, but you can’t c...

Leigh Hershkovich

Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well.

Deeply Odd

Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.

Deeply Odd

It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting." "Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card

Deeply Odd

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

Empire Falls

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

Forever Odd

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

Forever Odd

If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to happiness.

Forever Odd

When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential.

Forever Odd

I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's...quieter.

Forever Odd

It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

The stars sparkled above the mist shrouded tents and caravans of the carnival. The night crackled with an odd vibration, as if a veil of peculiarity settled over the company.

Gothic Cavalcade

Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous?

The Girl With Glass Feet

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

The Bell at Sealey Head

His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.

Brother Odd

Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us.

Brother Odd

I feel like I've been sliding all day.

Brother Odd

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Brother Odd