Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duff Gibson

I've had the odd person recognize me walking down the street, people have just stopped to congratulate me -- it's been really flattering.

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.

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.

It's not that odd for me, but it's a little different because you can't do the locker-room thing.

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

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Jay McInerney

I realized that I might not ever make it as a writer, that it might be because I wasn't good enough, or that it might be because the odds were just too long.

Bubba Watson

I keep defying the odds, you know.

Nate Silver

Data-driven predictions can succeed-and they can fail. It is when we deny our role in the process that the odds of failure rise. Before we demand more of our data, we need to demand more of ourselves.

Karen Traviss

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

Stuart Rose

I don't want to put any odds on it (continuing) at all...we're still talking.

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.

Martin Henderson

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.

Neil Armstrong

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

Nathan Myhrvold

There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Olivia Wilde

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

Lafcadio Hearn

Woo the muse of the odd.

Lucretius

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

Ozzy Osbourne

There are no unbeatable odds, there are no believable gods.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

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.

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.

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.

Khaled Hosseini

She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Martha Plimpton

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

John C. Maxwell

The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Sheena Iyengar

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different biases, particularly if what you're deciding is something that you really, that expertise can be brought to bear on it, there is a way in which you can align the odds, so then you should really use reason.