Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Krauthammer

Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating?

Dean Young

Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.

Douglas Adams

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world.

Alan Watts

It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

George Eliot

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

Martha Plimpton

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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.

Benicio Del Toro

I won and I get to scream and jump a little. But I got to go back to work tomorrow.

Bear Grylls

Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.

Audre Lorde

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

Arnold Bennett

Which of us is not saying to himself which of us has not been saying to himself all his life: " I shall alter that when I have a little more time"? We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Alain de Botton

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

Alanna Ubach

I've always wanted to act since I was little.

Alanis Morissette

We're all ants. I'm a glittery little ant.

Blaise Pascal

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Blaise Pascal

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

Alan Cumming

There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.

Jacqueline Bisset

People make sequels a lot in Hollywood, and sometimes it feels like there's never an original thought.

Jason Ritter

There's something about being rejected - when I go out without my friends, I'm reminded of how I'm actually quite antisocial. I don't look like a guy who feels like that, but it's very hard for me to start up a conversation. At a party, I'm lost.

O'Shea Jackson, Jr.

The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.

Tina Fey

I really wasn't heavy in high school. But no one feels right in their own skin, particularly in high school.

Johnny Damon

We're excited. Everyone in the room feels like we can win a championship. If we don't win, it would be a shame.

Romola Garai

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

Ric Keller

However one feels about the war in Iraq, realize that our troops deserve our support 100 percent.

Reggie Watts

I don't really like to drink. I don't like the way alcohol feels or tastes. On occasion I'll do it as a social thing, just to kind of go, 'Hey! I did something with you guys!'