#odd

Anybody who's been married to a man for forty odd years knows he's all talk. ↗

— Michael Parkinson

#been #forty #knows #man #married

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emotional outbursts and odd exclamations like 'Egad!', 'Narf!', 'Poit!', 'Splonk!' and 'Zort!' are allowed? ↗

— Rob Paulsen

#besides #character #complex #complex character #could

I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore. ↗

— Luke Perry

#because #fire #fireman #get #had

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#almost #another #because #countenance #elements

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#few #first #given #i #i write

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#also #dry #feel #funny #good

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me. ↗

— Jacques Rivette

#anything #filmmakers #many #me #never

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there. ↗

— Will Rogers

#conceives #gets #getting #inventions #many

With the draft, everybody was involved. Everybody was fodder. When you got to be 21, 22 and graduated from college, for two years your life stopped. If you had been running in the direction of your life, you had to stop and do this other thing which was, if not menacing, just plain boring. ↗

— Philip Roth

#boring #college #direction #draft #everybody

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation