Unusual Quotes

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

[This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

I developed a pretty unusual style, I think.

As a kid, I never thought I saw myself as unusual. I always thought that lots of people could do what I did. More and more I realized I was wrong.

Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it.

A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.

It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.

It requires a serious mind and a determined heart to pray past the ordinary into the unusual.

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

I cast unusual people in my movies.

I don't think I'm unusual in that, in my 20s, like many people, I felt invincible.

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward.

I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

I think the thing that music can do is be unsettling. It is abnormal - music that's perceived to be different in an unresolved or unusual way.

As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another one is always going to be interesting and exciting.

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

He would look so young. They were both so young. Tessa knew it was unusual to marry at seventeen and eighteen, but they were racing a clock. The clock of Jem's life, before it wound down.

There's nothing unusual about love.

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.

Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

For an actor to have a role that they're recognized and remembered for over the years, it's unusual. It's very lucky if it happens once - and it's luck that it's happened to me a couple of times.

Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

What is Atlas Obscura? So, it was a small digital media company. It's an atlas, it's literally like, an atlas of places, wonderful, unusual places.

And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.

You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage.