Unusual Quotes

One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

Stupid, Idea, Making

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Thomas Mann

Stupid, Idea, Making

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

Family, Children, Different

More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.
John Irving

Life, Special, Talent

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.
V. S. Naipaul

True, Give, Ask

It was very unusual for a boy to play tennis in my country.
Novak Djokovic

Country, Play, Boy

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
Elia Kazan

Sit, Lines, Revealing

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
Christopher Walken

Music, Age, Movies

But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
Debra Winger

Worry, Child, Queen

If you have one good series, you know, it's a blessing. Two good series is unusual. Three is a phenomenon, but right now, I'm working with these wonderful women on 'Hot in Cleveland,' and Valerie Bertinelli, and Wendy Malick and Jane Leeves are like, it's like the buddy-ship we had on 'Golden Girls' and 'Mary Tyler Moore.'
Betty White

Good, Women, Two

Alaska itself is an unusual state.
Fareed Zakaria

Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
Mos Def

Life, Love, Music

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.
Nicolas Cage

Try, Easy, Point

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Mother, Important, Law

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different.
Danny Boyle

Hard, Different, Easy

I cast unusual people in my movies.
Albert Brooks

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think.
Chiaki Kuriyama

Strong, Character, Thought

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.
Bryan Cranston

Bad, Different, Takes

Athletes often start life at the opposite end of the wealth and prestige spectrum, but as soon as they exhibit an unusual talent for swinging a bat or sinking a free-throw they may find that the rules have been suspended for them. They are waved through school and into the pros, and incidents of bad behavior are overlooked or covered up.
Jeffrey Kluger

Life, School, End

In the past, the U.K. got away with selling things that weren't unusual. Now it's no use trying to export without having something that's unusual and better.
James Dyson

Past, Trying, Away

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.
Janet Jackson

Age, Hair, Used

I was always good at math and science, and I never realized that that was unusual or somehow undesirable.
Marissa Mayer

Good, Science, Realized

Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
Chuck Jones

Real, Comedy, Situations

I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
Barbara Corcoran

School, Help, Words

It not unusual for women with anorexia to suffer heart attacks.
Carre Otis

Women, Heart, Suffer

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

Liar, Stupid, Person

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

Through, Matter, Three

After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.
John Woolman

Sadness, Heart, Him

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
William Allen White

Greatness, Quality, Common

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.
Christopher Reeve

Great, Father, Rather

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