#odd

Well, the odds must be against anybody being able to fly around the world in a balloon on the first attempt. All of us who are attempting to go around the world in balloons are effectively flying in experimental craft because these craft cannot be tested. ↗

— Richard Branson

#against #anybody #around #attempt #attempting

Whenever you're the child of a famous person, you get judged in odd ways because of that. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#child #famous #famous person #get #judged

I found that if I offered to cook for a girl, my odds improved radically over simply asking a girl out. Through my efforts to attract the opposite sex, I found that not only did cooking work, but that it was actually fun. ↗

— Alton Brown

#asking #attract #cook #cooking #did

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#become #did #enough #financial #fleetwood

It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to "discover" a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a preliminary hearing. ↗

— Warren E. Burger

#centuries #constitutional #counsel #court #discover

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do. ↗

— Delta Burke

#attracting #because #blanche #every #go

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. ↗

— Lord Byron

#any #contest #gives #kind #me

There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie. ↗

— Lizzy Caplan

#bananas #being #called #certain #certain level

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. ↗

— John Updike

#few #gagged #his #letters #line

My career was really odd, because I literally had a greatest hits album out and nobody knew who I was. They knew the songs, but they didn't know me. ↗

— Kenny Chesney

#because #career #greatest #greatest hits #had