#odd

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#accomplish #against #courage #encountered #maintained

Back when I was in theater school, trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life, 'Sweeney Todd' was a huge touchstone for me, my favorite musical for sure. ↗

— Eric McCormack

#favorite #figure #going #huge #i

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

The odd thing is, I don't consider what I do work, because it's what I love. But it is also an enormous amount of pressure, and you have to work an enormous amount of hours. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#amount #because #consider #enormous #hours

I have a "Waiter, there's a hair in my soup" dance. It involves platform shoes, a mustache, and a hair net. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#odd #silly #strange #funny

It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative. ↗

— George Miller

#odd #people #pretty #profession

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. ↗

— Henry Miller

#brings #conscious #consciousness #curative #enough

I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful! ↗

— Paul Taylor

#against #audience #here #human #human nature

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#album #bad #few #frame #get