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“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.”

Source: Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

“Those who are not with Mr. Bush are against him. Worse, they are with the enemy. Which is odd, because I'm dead against Bush, but I would love to see Saddam's downfall -- just not on Bush's terms and not by his methods. And not under the banner of such outrageous hypocrisy.”

Term Enemy Method Odd Hypocrisy Saddam Outrageous Banner Downfall

Author:John le Carre

“It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls himself roundtill he spontaneously combusts into verse. He has nothing that goes on, no passion, only a few intense moods, separate like odd stars, and when each has burned away, he must die.”

Giving Seems Poetry Dies Passion Stars Sex Poet Goes On Mood Intense Odd Burned Verses

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate?”

Ifs Love Mind Seems America Sex Mystery Worship Sacred Chiefs Odd Latter Why Not Amour Accusation Eros Puzzling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Book Reading Entertainment Bored Odd Nightmare Instruction Annoyed

Author:Margaret Atwood

“To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.”

Men Shows Spirit Kindness Alive Greatness Picks All Things Brave Odd Daring Odd Man

Book:The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose

Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose

“Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.”

Country America Common Class Notion Odd Distinction Class Distinction

Book:A Writer's Notebook

Source: A Writer's Notebook

“How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!”

Tears Odd Shed Distress

Book:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.”

Source: The Complete Works of L. E. Landon: Containing Romance and Reality, Francesca Carrara, Traits and Trials of Early Life, Ethel Church, the Book of Beauty, Improvisatrice, the Troubadour, Venetian Bracelet, Golden Violet, Vow of the Peacock, Easter Gift, &c., &c

“Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number of good results. All who attend are educated in self-government. This in a marked way. They bind society together. The well-to-do and the poor should be brought together as much as possible. The separation into classes--castes--is our danger. It is the danger of all civilizations.”

“Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divided into the following: prime and incomposite, composite, and a third intermediate class (mediocris) which in a certain way is prime and incomposite but in another way secondary and composite.”

Way Certain Numbers Class Thirds Following Odd Prime Divided Another Way Composites Seville Odd Numbers

Author:Isidore of Seville

“It's amazing how much time one can spend in a garden doing nothing at all. I sometimes think, in fact, that the nicest part of gardening is walking around in a daze, idly deadheading the odd dahlia, wondering where on earth to squeeze in yet another impulse buy, debating whether to move the recalcitrant artemisia one more time, or daydreaming about where to put the pergola.”

“Socrates: Have you noticed on our journey how often the citizens of this new land remind each other it is a free country? Plato: I have, and think it odd they do this.Socrates: How so, Plato?Plato: It is like reminding a baker he is a baker, or a sculptor he is asculptor.Socrates: You mean to say if someone is convinced of their trade, they haveno need to be reminded.Plato: That is correct.Socrates: I agree. If these citizens were convinced of their freedom, they would not need reminders.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Mean Country Journey Land Citizens Agree Trade Convinced Odd Plato Reminders Reminding Sculptors Bakers Free Country

Author:E. A. Bucchianeri

“It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview.”

Talking Worried Odd Interviews Exposure

Author:John Hawkes

“Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.”

People Way Want Humans Looks Persons Stills Enough Facts Shows Values Too Much Praise Faults Humble Vanity Vain Odd Admiration Applause Childlike Angling

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“Climate change has taken on political dimensions. That's odd because I don't see people choosing sides over E=Mc2 or other fundamental facts of science.”

People Facts Political Sides Taken Fundamentals Climate Climate Change Odd Dimensions Choosing Sides

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Mangling my racket and an odd swearword on the court is not something I am proud of and it shouldn't happen, but even my coaches have told me that it's sometimes better to let it all out, the anger inside you, because keeping it bottled would just eat you up in the long term.”

Long Sometimes Happens Term Proud Anger Court Coaches Odd Long Term Racket Anger Inside

Author:Novak Djokovic

“It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind.”

Mind Important Found Conversation Oneself Occasions Odd

Book:An Unsuitable Attachment

Source: An Unsuitable Attachment

“I don't know what you all believe, and I don't really care ... but you have to admit that beliefs are odd. Lots of Christians wear crosses around their necks ... you really think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross?”

Thinking Knows Want Believe Care Christian Jesus Belief Kings Crosses Odd Necks

Author:Bill Hicks

“I've always been an outsider. I am an outsider in Garbage. I'm the odd one out by default.”

Odd Outsiders Garbage Default Odd One

Author:Shirley Manson

“I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'”

Ifs Wells Stills Feelings Wanted Jobs Acting Excited Theatre Odd Auditions Broadway Therapists Odd Jobs Broadway Theatre

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I was first published in the newspaper put out by School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where I was a student. I wince to read that story nowadays, but I published it with an odd photo I'd found in a junk shop, and at least I still like the picture. I had a few things in the school paper, and then I got published in a small literary magazine. I hoped I would one day get published in The New Yorker, but I never allowed myself to actually believe it. Getting published is one of those things that feels just as good as you'd hoped it would.”

Feels Firsts Believe Art Stills Stories School Found Students One Day Paper Newspapers Magazines Odd Shops Chicago Junk New Yorkers Institute Feels Just Wince

Author:David Sedaris

“People come up to me in supermarkets and demand humour. And the less amusing I am, the more they piss themselves. So I say, "I'm doing my shopping, mate, OK?" and the guy will be on the floor in hysterics. Quite odd. Eventually I do have to say something funny so I usually go for something pathetic like, "It's a nice place to shop but I wouldn't like to live here!" and they roar again. Wet themselves. I'm lucky though that I am not massively famous, I can get the Tube without much bother. Must be awful being the Beckhams.”

People I Can Guy Nice Humour Lucky Demand Come Up Awful Bother Odd Shops Mates Shopping Wet Pathetic Amusing Tubes Supermarkets Beckham

Author:Steve Coogan

“The place that I found where European musicians and American musicians come together is that odd middle world which is called uncertainty.”

World Together Found Middle Musician Uncertainty Odd

Author:Hamid Drake

“I was born in an odd spot and was a very sensitive kid. My feelings could get hurt so easily because I always wanted to be loved, I wanted to be touched, I wanted to touch somebody. I wanted everybody to love me, so I think I was louder than I should have been. I was just trying to get attention. I always felt like I was somebody special, maybe it's because I needed to be somebody special.”

Thinking Should Trying Has Beens Feelings Kids Wanted Felt Born Hurt Attention Special Needed Should Have Spots Odd Sensitive Touched Should Have Been Wanted To Be Loved Somebody Special

Author:Dolly Parton

“Some writing courses will advise you to write what you know. I've always thought this is very odd advice ... because it means, for example, that I should not be writing about Nicholas Flamel, because I didn't live in France in the 15th Century, I was not an alchemyst, am not immortal (despite the rumours) and do not know magic.”

Knows Should Writing Mean Courses Magic Advice Century Example Despite France Odd Immortal Advise Rumours

Author:Michael Scott

“Writing from a teen's perspective is easy as pie. At least I've actually been a teen. I've never been a woman, or an ethnic minority, or a weary old man. If anything, writing from the perspective of a child is probably easier for me. When I was a kid everyone thought I was so clever and precocious. Now that I'm adult, everyone thinks that I'm kinda odd and childish.”

Ifs Thinking Men Writing Children Kids Easy Perspective Easier Adults Clever Odd Minorities Old Man Pie Weary Precocious

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“The framed tale is, in my opinion, one of the most natural ways to tell a story. If you think of it, the conceit of the frame-less story is actually the odd way of doing things. Without the frame, how do you know the context for a story?”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Stories Natural Opinion Tales Odd Do You Know Conceit Framed

Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.”

Ifs Kind Stories Reader Mood Odd Considering

Author:George Saunders

“Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”

Writing Sometimes Sound Natural Talking Keys Singing Difficulty Harmony Notes Odd Melody Perfectly Natural

Author:Elvis Costello

“True stories are always good because they're so odd, and so unlikely.”

Stories Odd Unlikely True Story

Author:Steven Knight

“I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives”

Believe Wells Long Ideas Seems Truth Our Lives Odd Truth Of Life Profitable

Book:Pragmatism

Source: Pragmatism

“I like the idea of becoming [fairly] good at lots of things rather than very good at just one thing. So it would be nice to be okay at the guitar or at the piano, a reasonable cook, perhaps able to fix your car or do some basic carpentry, and be able to write the odd article. Rather than being super good at one tiny thing, to be kind of average at lots of things. It might mean that you have a more kind of enjoyable, complete life.”

“I'm not the type who spends his free time in training camp playing with his Playstation or playing cards on trips. The other players thought it was odd: There he is, reading again.”

Reading Player Type Training Cards Odd Camps Free Time Playing Cards Playstation Training Camp

Author:Oliver Kahn

“I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.”

People Book Bits Fans Meetings Odd

Author:Daniel Handler

“Asked at the hearing why she hadn't pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn't know, about domestic terrorist threats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn't her job. Well, in retrospect, it was and now certainly is.”

Knows Wells Jobs Threat Hearing Terrorist Odd Rice Fbi Retrospect Odd One

Author:Howard Fineman

“When people call me Sir Anthony I just think oh, that's a bit odd. But I'm not cynical about it. Um, I just feel more comfortable being called Tony or Mr. Hopkins, whatever name I'm called.”

People Thinking Feels Names Bits Comfortable Odd Call Me Cynical Hopkins

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“I was in Covent Garden today having a pizza, and these men who worked there were secretly trying to take my picture from behind the counter. That sort of thing is so odd.”

Men Trying Today Behinds Garden Odd Pizza Covent Garden

Author:Joanna Page

“In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship with myself. Because I'm saying, "Look, these are things that have happened to me, but how odd they are or how ordinary they are [is up to the reader to decide]."”

Looks Kind Able Happened Reader Ordinary Distance Odd Addresses

Author:Paul Auster

“It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.”

Men Made Girl Sex Sin Virtue Color Humorous Vices Odd Amusing Chastity

Author:Voltaire

“Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.”

Way Mind Book Seems Turns Reading Mankind Gains Trade Corruption Odd Peculiar Fairness Brutal Sellers Cement Printer Binders

Author:John Locke

“Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess is supposed to be”

May Book Seems Seeing Defense Chess Supposed To Be Odd Abstract Warmth

Book:The Defense: A Novel

Source: The Defense: A Novel

“Like the characters in Chekhov, they have no reserves -– you learn the most intimate secrets. You get an impression of a world peopled by eccentrics, of odd professions, almost incredible stupidities, and, to balance them, amazing endurances.”

World Character Secret Balance Incredibles Stupidity Profession Impression Odd Intimate Reserves Chekhov

Book:Another Mexico

Source: Another Mexico

“It’s an odd term, 'girlfriend,' particularly for grown persons. And in practice it provides an even odder concept. Generally speaking, in adults it described a woman, not a girl, who was willing to provide sex, not friendship. In fact, from what I had observed it was quite possible for one to actively dislike one’s girlfriend, although of course true hatred is reserved for marriage.”

Persons Facts Girl Courses Sex Term Practice Willing Concepts Adults Hatred Odd Girlfriend Dislike Reserved Not Friends

Book:Dearly Devoted Dexter

Source: Dearly Devoted Dexter

“You know, I hate to give advice because my life has been so odd that almost nothing that's happened to me can apply.”

Knows Giving Has Beens Hate Happened Advice I Hate Odd

Author:William Joyce

“I think we're all pretty odd.”

Author:Michael Tippett

“I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.”

Jobs Fiction Willing Members Towns Science Fiction Odd Conventions Companionship Eccentric Fiction Writers Nebraska Odd Jobs

Author:Robert Reed

“I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatever was gone, the teeth and hair remained of those who had died with them. Is not this odd? They go the very first things in youth and yet last the longest in the dust.”

Firsts Lasts Death Gone Dying Youth Hair Thousand Died Graves Teeth Dust Odd

Author:Lord Byron

“Tom Stafford was an odd character, you know - a brilliant guy. He looked weird and I think he took a really defensive attitude about being a hunchback. You know how people can be, giving him a hard time. So he turned that into a defensive mechanism. He would strike first, a lot of times. But he was a great guy, and really those talks we had when I was about 15, out of all of that came the studio over the drugstore and everything else. I'm not saying - I'm no big deal, but I was a part of the birth of the music there.”

People Thinking Knows Giving Firsts Hard Character Bigs Guy Deals Attitude Know How Birth Studios Strikes Brilliant Odd Hard Times Mechanism Toms Big Deal Great Guy

Author:Donnie Fritts

“I've never had sex with boxers on and it's an odd thing to watch actors do. That's not saying I haven't tried... I just don't recommend it!”

Actors Sex Watches Havens Odd Boxers Odd Things

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal