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"At the end of any of my project I miss the material. I pick subjects I love and then get very engaged with them, so stopping that engagement often feels odd and arbitrary, but there's a moment when I don't want to change anything else and when the shape and length feels right. At that point, continuing would be destructive."
"At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd"
"It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . ."
"Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them."
"I'm insanely optimistic. For odd, weird reasons, things always work out."
"Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life."
"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."
"You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd."
"The truth is that seals look more like dogs. And I'm surrounded by seals because I live by the sea. They're odd bloody creatures. Not fish, they don't have gills, they should have legs, but they don't. They're the weirdest things, you know?"
"You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures."
"The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness."
"I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down."
"I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not."
"Texas is as odd as it is vast."
"Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that."
"I've also done things that put me in odd situations."
"I thought it odd that the woman was over a thousand years old but thought the microwave was primitive."
"Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me."
"It felt odd to be laughing during a firefight. Then again, if you can't laugh when you're about to die, when can you?"
"-I'm trying to make myself invisible. -That's an odd thing to attempt."
