Unusual Quotes

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

This is an unusual Scotland side because they have good players.

I know I've had an unusual beginning and a colourful life, but that wouldn't matter if I couldn't make it speak to other people.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

If people aren't laughing at you, you aren't saying anything very unusual. So let your voice be loud and strong, dare to try things that may fail.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

I believe I am a person with unusual talents. I think I'd be a liar or stupid if I were to deny that.

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love?

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.

We are a very, very unusual species.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual

My usual self is a very unusual self.

This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.

This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.

I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually.

If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.

If you are just having unusual experiences and feeling special–especially if you feel better than everybody else–I think that is a dangerous thing.

My mother is one of those very unusual, superb human beings-she's innately strong and incredibly smart. She created an environment for me to explore who I was.

The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

I don't really think of myself as quirky; I have sort of an unusual sense of humor.

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.

It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.

There's all different kinds of people, but I don't think it's that unusual that once you get like a little power, you get to do your weird thing even more.

You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.

When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.

The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.

It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.