Unusual Quotes

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.

Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

I feel like you can look inside me and see all the places I am odd or unusual and fit your heart around them, for you are odd and unusual in just the same way. We are the same.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

The Greeks already understood that there was more interest in portraying an unusual character than a usual character - that is the purpose of films and theatre.

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

My videos always involve some idea of a human being in a unusual situation-and what happens.

Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.

In the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them.

I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

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!

Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.

As the attuning of music arouses emotions in the body to an unusual degree, well that there be choices made as to what the emotions are that are aroused by the character of music.

It's not unusual for kids in their twenties to be mad at their parents.

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

These stories of people with unusual powers and unusual appearances, who do unusual things, people are always fascinated by them.

Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.

[About Paz De La Huerta....] And there is this girl in the audience and she's gorgeous I can only kind of see her silhouette and she's getting like her t*ts out and I'm like: God, that's unusual.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

Meditation clarifies our minds and opens our hearts, and brings us to unusual depth and stability of happiness, whatever life brings.

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.

Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego.

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it.

I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear sunglasses during shoot-out scenes. That's my party trick.

The successful person has unusual skill at dealing with conflict and ensuring the best outcome for all.