Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin White

He's done that to all of us in here during practice at the odd time. We know he has wheels.

I think the odds are good. I would be surprised if he didn't (beat the S&P).

John Wilson

There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those.

Arthur Blank

I got a lot of winks around the room. What's really odd is, you walk around and you would have thought I got all 32 votes.

James Woods

I would give you seven to one odds that this is going to be a slash piece, but that's OK. I'm willing to take the heat.

Stephen Jay Gould

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

Tyler Cowen

Sports is remarkably cognitive. I think it's underrated just how smart it is. Actually, if I had more time, I would spend more time with sports. Watching it, reading about it, I think it's oddly underrated.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Right now, holding you, I feel like we have a shot at beating all odds and making it together.

Bill Bryson

There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting themselves.

Patricia Clarkson

And now oddly I'm getting sexier parts than I've ever gotten.

Well, it's very odd that something like this happens, but again, what I want to reiterate is that no one was hurt. It could have been worse.

James Macdonald

You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.

Edith Hamilton

All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet

Kevin Smith

Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.

Lord Byron

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

Eric Ries

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Henry Paulson

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

And then he hitched his trousers up, as is, I'm told, their use, / - It's very odd that Sailor-men should wear those things so loose.

Sarasota is at a very odd time, because while we're on the verge of success, we're not successful yet.

There isn't really a theatre culture in L.A., which is odd when there are so many brilliant actors there.

Ernest Hemingway

Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy.

Flannery O'Connor

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

George Eliot

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

Harold Russell

... the human soul, beaten down, overwhelmed, faced by complete failure and ruin, can still rise up against unbearable odds and triumph.

J. R. R. Tolkien

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

Jerry Seinfeld

The less you know about a field, the better your odds. Dumb boldness is the best way to approach a new challenge.

Jeffrey Kluger

People with anxiety disorders such as OCD know that nothing can be more paralyzing than having too many options. Go to a store to buy a sweater, find four that you like and the odds are pretty good you'll stare and stare... and buy nothing at all.

Jacques Rivette

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

Eugene Mirman

I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something.

Hannah Arendt

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.