Quotes by Oddities Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make. John Hodgman oddities decision book One day, digital will be it. Analog will just be another oddity, and that's fine, too. I have no great misgivings about it, but there will always be something to analog. It's the smell of the tape and all that visceral, physical stuff. John Vanderslice oddities smell one-day Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right. Kurt Tucholsky oddities writing hands I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share. Libba Bray oddities individuality complicated This is the age of oddities let loose. Lord Byron oddities age One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said. Louis Menand oddities writing ideas 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. Lynn Shelton diverse-society oddities diversity The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity. Marilyn Hacker oddities writing ideas Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families. Mark Haddon oddities writing people I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. Martha Plimpton oddities feels littles Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant. Mary J. Miller oddities memories order Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities! Mehmet Murat Ildan oddities life interesting More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable. Michel de Certeau opaque oddities cities Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. Molly Ivins oddities produce cat The resurrection is not an isolated supernatural oddity proving how powerful, if apparently arbitrary, God can be when he wants to. Nor is it at all a way of showing that there is indeed a heaven awaiting us after death. It is the decisive event demonstrating that God’s kingdom really has been launched on earth as it is in heaven. N. T. Wright oddities powerful heaven It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful. Napoleon Bonaparte oddities As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl. Noam Chomsky oddities crazy thinking Music critics are, for the most part, bitter people who are intent at dragging people down for being successful at what they want to do, which is probably music. The oddity of being a critic is: You don't get a diploma, you just decide you're a critic. If someone listens to your opinion rather than their own, it's their mistake. Any critic's top 10, any year, it's something controversial or something that will make them look hipper-than-thou. The whole critic game, we've never played. Paul Stanley oddities successful mistake Theatres, actors, critics and public are interlocked in a machine that creaks but never stops. There is always a new season in hand and we are to busy to ask the only vital question which measures the whole structure. Why theatre at all? What for? Is it an anachronism, a superannuated oddity? Surviving like an old monument or a quaint custom? Why do we applaud and what? Has the stage a real place in our lives? What function can it have? What could it serve? What could it explore? What are its special properties? Peter Brook oddities real hands 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. Pico Iyer oddities worry world «123»