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«All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.»
Author: Derek Jarman
(Artist, Author, Film Director)
| Keywords:
defensive, homosexual, hopelessly, ideal, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, purity, racial, sexuality, straight
«I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. It's been about two months since I've worked out. And I just don't have the time. Which uh..is odd. Because I have the time to go out to dinner. And uh..and watch tv. And get a bone density test. And uh.. try to figure out what my phone number spells in words.»
Author: Ellen DeGeneres
(Actress, Comedian)
| Keywords:
all the time, bone, density, dinner, figure, figure out, go out, months, Number Two, odd, odd number, out to, phone, phone number, spells, TV dinner, worked, working out, work out
«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
Author: Frederick Buechner
(Author)
| Keywords:
bursts, crowd, fall into, floats, fourth, Fourth of July, happening, July, July 4, odd, prayers, praying, prays, rocket, rockets, sighing, Somebody else, sounds, spoken, stammer, stammering, The Rocket, The Water
«An odd thing occurs in the minds of Americans when Indian civilization is mentioned: little or nothing.»
Author: Paula Gunn Allen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
American civilization, American Indian, Indian, mentioned, occurs, odd
«And I find chopsticks frankly distressing. Am I alone in thinking it odd that a people ingenious enough to invent paper, gunpowder, kites and any number of other useful objects, and who have a noble history extending back 3,000 years haven't yet worked out that a pair of knitting needles is no way to capture food?»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
| Keywords:
a people, capture, chopsticks, distressing, extending, food for thought, frankly, gunpowder, ingenious, invent, knits, knitted, knitting, needles, objects, odd, odd number, pair, worked
«I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
gardener, gardeners, odd, savant, talk to
«But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| Keywords:
eaten, odd, scarcely, This Was
«In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| Keywords:
argument, considered, number, odd, odder, oddest, Odd and, odd number, roulette, roulette wheel, wheel, wheeled
«Everyday took an age to go by, which was odd, because days plural went past like a stampede.»
«But then I sigh; and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil: And thus I clothe my naked villany With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil»
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