#odd

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#ones #plodding #quiet #race #steady

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#generous #had #i #knew #money

I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#certainly #chance #i #i think #maybe

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. ↗

— Nate Silver

#cover #first #first of all #i #i think

It's odd how violence and humor so often go together, isn't it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#how #humor #odd #often #together

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#books #doing #first #i #jobs

I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue. ↗

— Jennifer Sky

#because #close #come #dialogue #doing

I asked no odds and I give none. A guy got in my way, I run over him. ↗

— Enos Slaughter

#give #got #guy #him #i

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#atmosphere #cameo #contents #image #memory

But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#around #bamboo #doing #gravel #i