Unusual Quotes - page 14

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution such call I good books. (Henry David Thoreau)
By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual. View quote
Janet Jackson
There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call honorary town councilors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometimes. It has nothing to do with me. Yet the fact that the cow chose me to obtain her pliers changes everything. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do. View quote
Angelina Jolie
I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable. View quote
Marissa Mayer
A deep sense of humor and an unusual ability for telling stories and jokes endeared Johnny even to casual acquaintances. View quote
E. P. Wigner
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. View quote
David Hockney
It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it. View quote
David Hockney
I am told that I adopt new and unusual language, not reconcilable with the true principals of the science. To me it appears that the unusual and, indeed, inconsistent language is that used by my opponents. View quote
David Ricardo
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? View quote
Simon Cowell
I was an idealist in my profession. If I used such expression as 'Jewish bastard' or 'Jewish sow,' it simply meant that this official language had become so much a part of my flesh and blood that I saw nothing unusual in it. I never used anything but spiritual weapons in dealing with offenders. (Heinrich Baab)
In chess, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
My father is an intellectual and physical man, which is a rather unusual combination. He's great. As he brought up me and my brothers and sisters, he ingrained in us that your appearance is not your responsibility, other than that you should not be a slob. View quote
Christopher Reeve
Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual. View quote
Jeff Bridges
There is a deep impression of awe produced by such a vast but silent crowd; we are at once conscious that the cause is terrible which can induce the unusual stillness. The issue of a trial on which hangs life or death, is indeed an appalling thing. We know that men are about to take away that which they cannot give-that a few words of human breath will deprive of breath one of the number for ever; and though we acknowledge that in this evil world punishment is the only security against crime, and that blood for blood has been a necessity from the beginning of time; still, we feel that the necessity is a dreadful one. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena. View quote
Herbert Simon
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady Gaga, just musically. View quote
Marilyn Manson
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
As Mr. Wallace justly observes, Hume's apothegm, that "a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature," is imperfect; for in the first place it assumes that we know all the laws of nature; and, second, that an unusual phenomenon is a miracle. View quote
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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. (Josh McDowell)
People find meaning and redemption in the most unusual human connections. View quote
Khaled Hosseini
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. View quote
Al Gore
It [9/11 event] was aimed at symbols: the World Trade Center, the heart of American capitalism, and the Pentagon, the headquarters of the American military establishment. But it was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual. View quote
Edward Said
What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. View quote
Joni Mitchell