Top 1200 Odd Thomas Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Odd that I couldn’t catch any of your dream,” Bones went on. “Normally your dreams are like background music to me.

Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

If you think about the way the hearings were structured, the hearings were really about Thomas' race and my gender.

Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.

What's odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us.

I turned to human suffering because - this may sound odd - animal suffering is more difficult for me to deal with.

I'm never what anybody envisions as the prototype of a character. My looks are just odd enough so that I'm just not what people think of.

I have a camp so I brought my writers, LaShawn Daniels and at the time, Anesha and Antea [Birchett], they were sisters, and this girl Delisha [Thomas] and Makeba [Riddick]. I brought basically five writers to work on different ideas. You either make the cut or you don't.

'Nice Guys' has darkness in it and parts that are kind of odd, but there are also parts where it's heartfelt and soulful. You can switch back and forth.

Don't give up on me now. I'm sorry. I guess that's an odd thing to say. Because isn't that what I'm doing? Giving up?

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

Odd things happen to all of us on our way through life without our noticing for a time that they have happened.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

What Thomas DiLorenzo misses is that the other abolitions were either very limited as in the liberation of the serfs by Alexander II or far away from the metropolitan center of those nations - the French and British abolitions were of slavery in the West Indies.

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

I am like that guy on the 'Odd Couple,' and it is not the neat guy. I go into my room and find pieces of pizza under the laundry.

I've kept up my fitness and thanks to the odd Forza T5 Super Strength pill here and there I've kept the snacking at bay.

The hardest part about being ghosted is the fact that you can't deal with the ghoster directly. You just never hear from them again, and everything feels odd and incomplete.

Everyone seems to be running against a liar, but nobody seems to be one. Odd - I mean, the math doesn't work out.

Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.

I'm a second-generation professional wrestler. My family, the Rhodes family, has been wrestling for 50-odd years.

I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am.

I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.

It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

There is no perfect solution to depression, nor should there be. And odd as this may sound we should be glad of that. It keeps us human.

In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

You look lousy,"Simon said. Jace blinked."Seems an odd time to start an insult contest,but if you insist,I could probably think up something good

The United States has already passed on as the world's economic leader. Having flouted Thomas Jefferson for too long, America has succumbed to public debt, the 'fore horse for oppression and despotism,' after which 'taxation will follow, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.'

Now that the Court has declared money to be speech, I say we replace the current Court with some Ben Franklins, Thomas Jeffersons, George Washingtons, a couple of Susan B. Anthony's, Roosevelts, Hamiltons, a Sacajawea or two, and an Abe Lincoln to cover Scalia in full.

I worked odd jobs delivering pizza, folding chairs, telemarketing, selling kitchen cutlery door to door.

My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

Indeed, your scars may be your greatest ministry. Just as the scars of Jesus convinced Thomas, perhaps your scars will convince someone today.

I moved to New York in 2003, I was a very young 22-year-old, so I just kind of started finding my way as a human and was working odd jobs here and there.

I have taken a bit, when I find the time, to the odd television binge. Because television has improved so much, it's worth binging.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

When you see Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and it's shot on film at 75mm it's...you know. It's hard to compare. But I still think that digital is close enough, and I think it's getting closer and closer to be...there's no doubt it's going to be taking over completely unfortunately.

I have an odd relationship with motherhood. I've never had that relationship of this unconditional friendship, deep bond that you have with somebody, but I have it now with my son.

To me, Jon is not a fun name. Thomas is not a fun name.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise... It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

I turn on the TV sometimes, start watching something and think: 'This seems quite good, a bit familiar.' Then I realise … It's one of my movies. It's a pretty odd feeling.

It's much easier when you have your co-workers who are just, they're there in the moment. If you were out of the moment, you would feel odd.

You always get the odd comment, along the lines of the women are not as good as the men, and I get called a lesbian.

I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something.

I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist point of view. I just look around and see what's wrong.

I look in the mirror and see new lines every day, I'll see the odd grey hair - but this is life.

I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey Chaucer or Sir Thomas Malory, but once I start moving in the direction of contemporary fantasy, my mind begins to take over.

People like to put people in little boxes and if you don't fit you're odd. But they don't really know anything about me.

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

Thomas Jefferson went through the New Testament and removed all the miracles, leaving only the teachings. Take a source, extract what appeals to you, discard the rest. Such an act of editorship is bound to reflect something of the individual doing the editing: a plaster cast of an aesthetic-not the actual thing, but the imprint of it.

Still in Bed?" Thomas had asked with amusement, as Lissianna had blinked at them. "I am so glad you got at least a little rest today. I feared you'd work Greg to death while the rest of us tried to sleep.

There might be the odd person in my family who was an artist down the line, but no one in my immediate family is an actor of any kind.

TV shows are built on relationships, and it seemed kind of odd to make a show without any relationships in it.

I'm Scottish first, and it's odd to hear that I'm a Scottish-American.

Sir Julian Huxley, one of the world's leading evolutionists, head of UNESCO, descendant of Thomas Huxley - Darwin's bulldog - said on a talk show, 'I suppose the reason we leaped at The Origin of Species was because the idea of God interfered with our sexual mores.'.

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.