Best 65 quotes in «unusual quotes» category

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 pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

I had started by imitating a parrot, which is unusual, in that a parrot is supposed to imitate you. By taking the initiative you allow the parrot no alternative but to be itself, which proves again that attack is often the best defence.

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

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

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

It will be an unusual dynamic [in Congress]. It won't be like the rallying behind President [Barack] Obama in 2009 or behind President [George W.] Bush, even at the beginning of his presidency, or even [Bill] Clinton in '93, when he got his budget through on a partisan vote.

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?

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

My usual self is a very unusual self.

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.

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

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.

The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.

The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.

Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.

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

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

The unusual wins out over the usual.

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

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.

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

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.

A tyrant has uncommon moral compass.

What makes Jay Johnstone unusual is that he thinks he's normal and everyone else is nuts.

Yale is practicing a most unusual media strategy. I'd call it Just say nothing.

A new dream always causes a feeling frenzy. - The Malwatch

... 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.

Be unpredictable.

Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.

I don't think this one's business as usual. Me evil cunt sense is tinglin'.

Discovery originates out of unusual observations that curiosity demands to understand.

Do not ask directly when you find something unusual in someone, and do not respond quickly when someone speaks unusually.

Don't Be Usual, Be Unusual.

God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...a burden.

If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.

My face is shaped like a face, and my body like a body, but my thoughts are very unusual. Piano from the third floor. Daisies on a roof.

I have an attraction to strange and unusual things. I find them interesting, spellbinding, utterly fascinating.

It's a rare man who can guard against beauty.

Oh, yes, she's unusual!" he said bitterly. "She blurts out whatever may come into her head; she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another; she's happier grooming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less dignity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and – a darling!

She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers.

One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one.

She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious. The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and kitsch. The common thread seemed to be that each object had a story, like a pottery jug with a bas-relief love story told in pictures, in which she'd found a note reading, "Long may we run. -Gilbert." Or the antique clock on the living room wall, each of its carved figures modeled after one of the clockmaker's twelve children. She favored the unusual, so long as it appeared to have been treasured by someone, once upon a time. Her mail spilled from an antique box containing a pigeon-racing counter with a brass plate engraved from a father to a son. She hung her huge handbag on a wrought iron finial from a town library that had burned and been rebuilt in a matter of weeks by an entire community. Other people's treasures captivated her. They always had, steeped in hidden history, bearing the nicks and gouges and fingerprints of previous owners. She'd probably developed the affinity from spending so much of her childhood in her grandmother's antique shop.

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum. "I shall live in it with my servants, of course," said Mina. "Or I shall establish a school." "A school, my lady?" "Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember.