#odd

We have indeed been fortunate in this country. Over the last 200 some odd years since our Nation was founded, rarely have there been attacks upon our homeland. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#been #country #fortunate #founded #homeland

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. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#adaptation #been #biology #centrality #discovering

It's like there was the Union, and then there's the Union Management. In some of the strikes that I covered when I saw the strike starting to break, wasn't necessarily when Management was giving in, more so than when the strikers were at odds with the Union Management. ↗

— Richard Grimes

#covered #giving #i #like #management

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

#creative writing #creative writing programs #exist #france #idea

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#am #express #going #got #having

I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit. ↗

— Harriet Harman

#benefit #bring #championing #children #how

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#beyond #experience #immediate #induce #odd

It's probably odd for someone to read an interview where the interviewee is worried about exposure while they're talking in an interview. ↗

— John Hawkes

#exposure #interview #odd #probably #read

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed. ↗

— Carolyn Heilbrun

#ahead #always #fact #hold #job

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was. ↗

— Shirley Henderson

#avenue #because #get #i #i think