Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Cave

If you're Australian, you feel it in your bones because you're at odds with everybody else, except other Australians, in the sense that people always seem to be behaving strangely. People always seem to be behaving the wrong way, in a different way. You say things and there are silences.

Socrates

It is better to be at odds with the whole world than, being one, to be at odds with myself,

Patricia Clarkson

The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.

Patricia Cornwell

Thoughts are odd misfires.

John Stuart Mill

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

Kyle Maynard

We should never shy away from the challenges that face us out of fear of failure or an unwillingness to battle the odds. We should confront our problems head on and make no excuses.

Libba Bray

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Lynn Shelton

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

Louis Nizer

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Nikola Tesla

Like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed. I drew with a stick on the sand the diagrams of my motor. A thousand secrets of nature which I might have stumbled upon accidentally I would have given for that one which I had wrestled from her against all odds and at the peril of my existence.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you roll dice, you know that the odds are one in six that the dice will come up on a particular side. So you can calculate the risk. But, in the stock market, such computations are bull - you don't even know how many sides the dice have!

All coastal communities in the United States are at risk of a tsunami. We can talk about the odds of that risk, but all are at risk.

Norm MacDonald

It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."

Lloyd Alexander

Any fool can tell a story. Take a few odds and ends of things that happen to you, dress them up, shuffle them about, add a dash of excitement, a little color, and there you have it.

Lynndie England

I thought the whole masturbation thing was really odd and really weird.

Lewis Black

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

Karen Hesse

Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

Laura Wade

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.

Lord Byron

This is the age of oddities let loose.

Julianne Moore

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.

Paul Kantner

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

Marina Warner

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

Marilyn vos Savant

Scientists and creationists are always at odds, of course.

Edith Hamilton

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

Jon Stewart

The reason I don’t worry about society is, nineteen people knocked down two buildings and killed thousands. Hundreds of people ran into those buildings to save them. I’ll take those odds every f*cking day.

Joyce Carol Oates

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

Richard Wilbur

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Roger Martin

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

Rick Riordan

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Peter Shilton

I don't take a lot of notice of odds.

Pico Iyer

The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.

Robin McKinley

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.