“It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn.” WayWellsEndsPlayFilmCausesStrangeFlowRhythmCraftsOdd Author:Judd Nelson
“The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish.” YearsMadeDarkNumbersYears AgoBillsOddAdamNewtonWayne Author:Judd Nelson
“Through my former experiences, writing poetry and learning other languages leading up to English I find ways to stitch words together that may seem a bit odd, but somehow, sometimes they do work.” WayWritingMaySometimesSeemsTogetherLanguageBitsFormerOddWriting PoetryStitches Author:Masiela Lusha
“I'm in an odd position because I write across so many genres for so many people and they all influence me, and if I'm going to write as honest an album as possible, it's going to be layered.” PeopleIfsWritingInfluenceHonestPositionAlbumsGenreOdd Author:Ryan Tedder
“As far as this categorization of books, the way I see it is there are really a hundred-odd categories of books plus one, and on the top shelf at home, I've got the books I love, my favorite books, and that's the type of book that I want to write.” WayWantWritingBookHomeTypeHundredMy FavoriteOddPlusCategoriesShelvesFavorite BookCategorization Author:Markus Zusak
“It seems odd, but people who see my films normally take them in in a deeper way than you would actually watch a film, let's say The Terminator or whatever.” PeopleWaySeemsFilmWatchesDeeperOdd Author:Werner Herzog
“In an odd way, Donald Trump and maybe Brexit is gonna be great for inspiring a new wave of socially conscious political music.” WayPoliticalTrumpConsciousWaveOdd Author:Moby
“I tend to play rather odd men. People that are slightly odd or eccentric, or have a more particular attitude to life.” PeopleMenPlayAttitudeParticularOddEccentricOdd Man Author:Rowan Atkinson
“The boys have been running Washington for a long-ass time. We're talking 200-some-odd years.” YearsLongHas BeensRunningTalkingBoysAssOdd Author:Alison Pill
“I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and he said, "Art Carney did it for six months and I did it for three years, and I don't think anyone I've ever spoken to saw me. They all saw Art Carney."” ThinkingYearsArtSaidStoriesThreeSawsMonthsCoupleSixEnjoyedOddThree YearsBroadwaySix MonthsOdd Couple Author:Brent Spiner
“Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.” ThinkingWayPurposeIntentionObviousOdd Author:Richard Dawkins
“If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.” PeopleIfsWayShouldYearsHumansWould BeWantedWaitingReligiousHuman BeingsCapableBillionsOddSinning Author:Richard Dawkins
“It was a very odd transition I guess because I didn't really intend for it to happen; it wasn't a goal of mine to end up in Hollywood and do anything other than sportscasting.” EndsHappensGoalMinesHollywoodOddTransition Author:Chris Harrison
“It's odd that there is a high level of appreciation of nature. There is the aesthetic side that really loves nature and beauty.” SidesLevelsAppreciationOddAestheticHigh LevelNature LoveNature And Beauty Author:Jerry Garcia
“New Orleans was a thrilling place of all kinds of races, it was a dangerous place. It was really and truly the only international city on the continent of North America. There were all different races and everything was celebrated, and it was a place of difference, and everybody was different and it was so odd, the minute that America took over, the minute that the Louisiana territory became part of the United States of America, instantly you were either black or white. There was no nuance. and so a free man of color who could own property was suddenly not allowed to.” MenKindDifferentStatesAmericaBlackDifferencesWhiteUnitedRaceCitiesUnited StatesMinutesDangerousColorPropertyInternationalAll KindsOddTerritoryContinentsUnited States Of AmericaNew OrleansThrillingFree ManNuanceNorth AmericaLouisianaBlack Or WhiteDangerous PlacesDifferent Races Author:John Guare
“It's very odd, being older, because in a way it's hard to own the past, even.” WayHardPastOdd Author:Diane Keaton
“When the ACLU took my case and we got a ruling I think, for the first time, they could - the Congress could put out the report internally but they couldn't put it out at taxpayers' expense around the country. And I felt odd about that because I, in a way, I was interfering with free speech, but then, you can't always win.” ThinkingWayFirstsCountryWinningFeltCasesSpeechFirst TimeCongressOddReportsExpensesFree SpeechInterfereRulingTaxpayers Author:Nat Hentoff
“Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.” HavensReaderBritishOddClueHunches Author:Seamus Heaney
“The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.” FeelsHas BeensMadeImportantEnoughMovementLuckyPressureFeministOddUpbringingEccentricityFeminist MovementOddness Author:Susan Sontag
“I find it very odd that the amendment about the right to bear arms, laws that were written so long ago, still pertain and don't get adjusted properly. Because the right to bear arms doesn't mean automatic weaponry designed specifically for human combat.” HumansMeanLongStillsLawWrittenArmsBearsOddCombatAmendmentsLong AgoRight To Bear ArmsWeaponry Author:Jim Jarmusch
“I just have a heart filled with gratitude for a wonderful family. My wife, Karen, is the love of my life, and she campaigned with me virtually every day of 130-some odd days of the campaign trail, as did our daughter, Charlotte, traveled all over the country with us. But my son, who just got married to his college sweetheart, and our youngest daughter - just am grateful for a family that has supported me in my calling to public service.” HeartCountryWifeWonderfulCollegeSonGratitudeCallingMarriedDaughterGratefulFilledMy WifeCampaignsOddMy SonTraveledTrailsPublic ServiceSweetheartOur DaughterCharlotteLove Of My LifeHeart FilledWonderful FamilyYoungest Daughter Author:Mike Pence
“If you make money back from your record, you're doing it smart. It's an expensive hobby. I'm lucky enough to still make a living as a musician through live work and odd bits of royalties.” IfsStillsEnoughBitsRecordsLuckyMusicianSmartMaking MoneyOddExpensiveHobbiesRoyalty Author:Robyn Hitchcock
“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsTryingBookUsedProcessGriefWrittenSubjectsHugeOne WayOddGrievingOver ItMapsRitualSpatial Author:John Darnielle
“[Jim Belushi] and I have a great thing going, and a really weird, offbeat story. [Living In Peril] is the type of movie that I don't even know if it would be made today. Just a very odd film. But a very fun movie.” IfsKnowsMadeStoriesWould BeTodayFilmFunTypeGreat ThingsOddPerilReally WeirdOffbeatFun Movie Author:Rob Lowe
“Being an actor is really odd. So, don't take that as your reality - take your family, take your friends, take your relationships - that's your reality. And hang on to them.” RealityActorsOddOur FamilyOur Relationship Author:Lorna Luft
“Today many politicians suggest that where the federal government does not act, there must be anarchy. That view is odd, blinkering out the work of state and towns, which until recently did much of our charitable and cultural work. That view also blinkers out the role of mutual societies and churches.” DoeStatesGovernmentTodayChurchViewsRolesPoliticianTownsOddMutualAnarchyFederal GovernmentCharitableBlinkers Author:Amity Shlaes
“In Destroyer of the gods I focus on several major features of early Christianity that made it distinctive, even odd or bizarre .We don't today realize just how different early Christianity was in that context.” MadeDifferentTodayRealizingChristianityFocusMajorsMade ItOddFeaturesBizarreDistinctiveDestroyers Author:Larry Hurtado
“For me, it's often about consumption behavior. I focus my energy on understanding the heavy user. They are "odd" but hold opportunity. I ask: how do they use the product, what motivates them, how can we clone them.” UseAsksOpportunityEnergyUnderstandingFocusProductsBehaviorHeavyOddUsersConsumption Author:Michael J. Silverstein
“For one, [ Freddie Roach] is wasting his time because I don't even read those reports. So that's the first thing. Secondly, I hear about them from other people around me and it doesn't make a difference to me. It seems kind of odd for him to be coming out so much and saying so many different things and every day it's a new thing. But like I said, I don't read them and I don't care about them and it doesn't make a difference come fight night.” PeopleFirstsKindSaidDifferentSeemsCareNightFightingDifferencesDon't CareI Don't CareOddMaking A DifferenceReportsDifferent ThingsComing OutNew ThingsRoaches Author:Chris Algieri
“Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.” ThinkingKnowsI CanWishParentFieldsLessonsBlameInstrumentsRhythmOddGood SenseMusic Lessons Author:Frederick Wiseman
“I didn't like university life much at Bologna. The subjects I studied - economics and business administration - didn't interest me. I wanted to make films. I was glad when I was graduated. Yet it's odd; on graduation day, I was overcome with a terrible sadness. I realized that my youth was over and now the struggle had begun.” WantedFilmInterestStruggleSadnessSubjectsYouthTerribleEconomicsOvercomingUniversityI RealizedGladAdministrationOddGraduation DayBolognaBusiness Administration Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."” ThinkingKnowsWayChildrenEndsProblemSufferingFightingPresidentGenerationsBattleOur ChildrenIraqOddTroopsRationalityOur GenerationBaghdadPresident George W Bush Author:Jon Stewart
“Elements of the Christian fundamentalist right are one of the strongest components of "support for Israel" - support in an odd sense, because they presumably want to see it destroyed in a cosmic battle at Armageddon, after which all the proper souls will ascend to heaven - or so I understand, again, not from close reading.” WantSoulChristianReadingHeavenSupportBattleElementsIsraelDestroyedOddStrongestCosmicComponentsFundamentalistArmageddonClose Reading Author:Noam Chomsky
“You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.” WritingPersonsSocialLevelsMediaSocial MediaTricksOddNasty Author:Boy George
“The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is getting a reputation for doing manga related work. But I would say that my scripts are NOT manga at the stage of my writing process, they are just comic book stories in a more general sense.” ThinkingWritingBookStoriesProcessSoundTermStageScriptsReputationComicOddRelatedComic BookWriting Process Author:Sean Michael Wilson
“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.” PeopleWayShouldMindFirstsIdeasWantedGrowsGrowing UpSawsFirst TimeActressesNo IdeaOddPearlsBroadwayVividBombardedBombarded By Author:Bette Midler
“I see no real argument in Britain that is concerned that an Indian company owns our most successful car manufacturer or that the sewer system under London is being renewed in part by Chinese investment. There are the odd voices that express concern but they are very marginal and they are not being listened to by the British people.” PeopleRealVoiceCompanySuccessfulCarConcernConcernedArgumentInvestmentBritishLondonChineseIndianOddBritainSewers Author:George Osborne
“Great insight comes from seeing something as odd and finding out why.” SeeingFindingsInsightOdd Author:Philip Kotler
“Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.” HumansMadeIdeasDifferentRealFactsRunningJoyUniverseProcessHuman BeingsPartyAttitudeRepublicanOffersAgreeNotesIdeologyAgentsIronyOddSpiteAcceptableEstatesRepublican PartyResentThought ProcessEstate Agents Author:John Lydon
“I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.” WritingI CanPracticeMethodOddHotelMy Thoughts Author:Allison Joseph
“Anyone who lives with poor health or chronic pain, or who has endured poverty - real poverty - knows what it is to live with lack and a resulting fear so incessant that it becomes thoroughly normalized, invisible in its ubiquity. If you're lucky enough to have that fear begin to ease, it's an odd experience. A stranglehold eases off your entire body, one you never fully realized was there.” IfsKnowsRealEnoughBodyPainPoorPovertyLuckyInvisibleEaseOddIncessantChronic PainPoor HealthUbiquity Author:C.E. Morgan
“I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness, tolerance, humour, et cetera. The current Trump administration seems to thrive on trying to enforce a very odd, fearful agenda, that it tries to disguise in a false garment of fondness for the working-class - despite the fact that its policies seem designed to continue the decades-long habit of marginalizing that group.” ThinkingNeedsTryingLongFactsSeemsClassKindnessGroupsPolicyHumourTrumpHabitAgreeAffectionCurrentsDecadesToleranceDespiteAdministrationOddThriveAgendasFearfulDisguiseWorking ClassCivilityGarmentsFondnessAgree Upon Author:George Saunders
“There probably is a lot of music that no one's ever gonna hear. For anyone doing music, just do exactly what it is that makes you want to do it. If you like listening to odd, strange, bizarre noise and that makes you want to create it, do it. Even if everyone around you tells you it's crap or thinks it won't work, someone out there is going to appreciate it.” IfsThinkingWantStrangeListeningAppreciateNoiseOddCrapBizarre Author:Dustin Diamond
“I'm in an odd place right now in New York where I routinely get trashed by every daily drama critic and have a few allies among weekly/monthly drama critics, and you sort of plot these things out and figure it out. But it's just what any writer goes through, periods of favor, periods of disfavor. And the trick is just to keep writing and to not let an obsession.” WritingFiguresNew YorkPeriodsDramaRight NowCriticsFavorsTricksObsessionOddPlotAllies Author:Tony Kushner
“That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.” ThinkingOddProgressivism Author:Tom Harkin
“The integration in Germany was made easier by the fact that I am probably of the third generation. So I have undergone a process of assimilation, of Jews into German society.I lived as a child in Germany, the feeling of being surrounded by people of whom the majority had very strong anti-Semitic sentiments. But there was one very odd thing in the whole milieu in which I lived: no one accepted the stigmatization. It is quite difficult. No one, my father for instance, would ever take it seriously. He would regard anti-Semites as people of no education.” PeopleChildrenFeelingsFatherStrongDifficultJewAcceptedOddSentimentsVery StrongIntegrationAssimilation Author:Norbert Elias
“I love dealing with drama. I'm drawn to the painful side of storytelling, more so. I feel like that's where you get the most honesty from. My laughter comes from irony. You laugh at my pain. I can't look for the laugh 'cause I'll fall flat on my face. I like the type of laughter that comes from irony like, "Of course, it's sunny today when I wore a mink coat!" I'm that guy. I was raised on Benny Hill and The Odd Couple and The Honeymooners.” TodayPainGuyFallLaughingHonestyCoupleDramaLaughterPainfulStorytellingHillsIronyOddSunny Author:Michael K. Williams
“My pieces usually are programmed on concerts in which the other works are standard repertoire. My music always sounds very different when it's on a concert of all contemporary music. It always seems to stick out at an odd angle. This also makes me think of a question I sometimes debate with my friends: does the music of a composer directly reflect that composer's personality? This is a difficult one, but I think it usually does.” ThinkingDifferentSometimesDifficultPersonalityDebateOddComposer Author:Jennifer Higdon
“Donald Trump always used to say, "Oh, what have you been doing for 30 years?" And I always found that kind of odd because you could Google it and find out. And, you know, I've been a lawyer and I've been a First Lady and I've been a senator and I've been secretary of state.” KindLawyerOddGoogleSecretaryFirst Lady Author:Hillary Clinton
“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveCareReligiousFailingStupidAtheistPhilosopherCommunicateDebateIdiotMake SenseOdd Author:Tim Crane