Unusual Quotes - page 13

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual. (Mia Kirshner)
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual. View quote
Mira Nair
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music. View quote
Neil Finn
'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting. View quote
Neill Blomkamp
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that. View quote
Nell Freudenberger
For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe. View quote
Paul Stamets
It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do. View quote
Rick Bragg
I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual. View quote
Ricky Jay
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface. View quote
Robert Patterson
Afraid no, I wasn't afraid but it was an unusual thing, it was an unusual feeling. It was an unusual atmosphere for me having grown up in this country and, and, and never seeing anything like that. View quote
Ralph Boston
Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation. (Robert Winston)
That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer! View quote
Roman Coppola
If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual. View quote
Seth Shostak
I try to get away. It's very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one of the things I've had to get used to for a television show. I enjoy going on adventures and seeing the planet. View quote
Stana Katic
It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be on to hints as to what the Universe is made out of. I guess the whole point of a prize like this is to be able to get that out into the community. View quote
Saul Perlmutter
Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large. View quote
Thomas Pogge
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. View quote
William Kempe
I don't fear being outspoken. The only thing I fear is losing my sense of integrity or losing sight of the values on which I guide my life. So I don't think it's particularly brave or unusual for me to speak out. View quote
Constance Wu
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician. View quote
John Lydon
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S. View quote
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Clearly, heated reactions to the court or to its members are not unusual. Certainly, Justice Blackmun was attacked repeatedly because many disagreed, as I have, with the opinion he offered on behalf of the Court in Roe vs. Wade. (Clarence Thomas)
He's had a tough life. As is not unusual in Jewish families - if you've ever seen the movie Avalon - I think somebody's cut the turkey on Uncle Louis a few years ago... That doesn't change my view of him when I was young and he was a detective. View quote
Howard Safir
Actually, 3D is really the most normal thing because it's how those of us with two eyes usually see the world. TVs are the unusual things in 2D! View quote
Shigeru Miyamoto
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. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes. View quote
Daniel Tammet