Unusual famous quotes

I cast unusual people in my movies.
-- Albert Brooks

#People #Unusual #Casts

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

#Thinking #People #Unusual

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn't that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.
-- Amy Winehouse

#People #Suffering #Unusual

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

#Photography #Usual #Unusual

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.
-- Beetlejuice

#People #Strange #Unusual

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.
-- Bill Murray

#Underwear #Unusual #Chicks

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

#Character #Important #Unusual

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

#Ideas #Video #Unusual

People always say to me, Youre really attractive - in an unusual way. No one ever just says, Youre attractive.
-- Carrot Top

#People #Way #Unusual

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
-- Chris Stringer

#Fossils #Unusual #Modern

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Thinking #Unusual #Natural

Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.
-- Colleen Coble

#Occupation #Stories #Unusual

We are unusual and tragic and alive.
-- Dave Eggers

#Alive #Unusual #Tragic

It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.
-- David Hockney

#Unusual #Paint #British

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
-- David Livingstone

#Christian #Unusual #Found

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

#Children #Different #Unusual

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
-- Desmond Morris

#Successful #Fundamentals #Unusual

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

#Unusual #Homosexuality #Circumstances

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.
-- Didi

#Voice #Unusual

Pollock looks unusual and radical even now.
-- Donald Judd

#Looks #Unusual #Radical

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
-- Elia Kazan

#Directors #Littles #Unusual

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.
-- Elliott Carter

#Pieces #Radio #Unusual

England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
-- Emo Philips

#England #Unusual #Standing Out

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.
-- Erica Jong

#Hate #Sometimes #Unusual

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Beautiful #Provocative #Unusual

Alaska itself is an unusual state.
-- Fareed Zakaria

#Alaska #Unusual #States

Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was pretty unusual. That's how I got the nickname The Chemist.
-- Frank Zane

#Nicknames #Acid #Unusual

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.
-- Howard Pyle

#Teaching #Thinking #Unusual

I don't think it's unusual to spend time with your castmate.
-- Isabel Lucas

#Thinking #Unusual #Spend Time

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.
-- Jeffrey Sachs

#Running #Economics #Unusual

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.
-- Jimmy Hoffa

#Unions #Unusual

The last thing you want to do, unless it's a very unusual situation, is to invest money.
-- John Kluge

#Want #Lasts #Unusual

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
-- John Twelve Hawks

#Sleep #Life Is #Unusual

I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.
-- Jonathan Winters

#Home #Unusual

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.
-- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#Men #Unusual #Divine

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.
-- Joseph Stiglitz

#America #Wages #Unusual

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
-- Julio Cortazar

#Literature #Unusual #Creation

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
-- Julius Caesar

#Confidence #Fear #Unusual

Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.
-- Julius Caesar

#Obscurity #Unusual

He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke
-- Ken Tucker

#Men #Careers #Unusual

Well, the coolest thing I have seen so far, in terms of, like, me being an astronaut and seeing something unusual, was the rendezvous, the docking of a Progress spaceship.
-- Kevin A. Ford

#Progress #Unusual #Astronaut

Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13
-- L. Frank Baum

#Land #Life Is #Unusual

I didn't set out to be unusual or different. I just wanted to do things my way.
-- Lilly Pulitzer

#Different #Way #Unusual

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.
-- Lily Cole

#Looks #Way #Unusual

I probably have reported, probably more about the unusual animal death stories then anyone else on this planet.
-- Linda Moulton Howe

#Animal #Stories #Unusual

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

#World #Unusual #Unpredictable

It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.
-- Mario Monti

#Unusual #Initiative

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

#Math #Unusual #Math And Science

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.
-- Marlo Thomas

#Power #Unusual #Young

It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.
-- Martha Plimpton

#Unusual #Situation

I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.
-- Mia Kirshner

#Saws #Magazines #Unusual

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.
-- Michel Hazanavicius

#United States #Unusual #States

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
-- Mikhail Lermontov

#Unusual #Ends

Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
-- Mira Nair

#America #Bed #Unusual

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.
-- Nell Freudenberger

#Character #Fiction #Unusual

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.
-- Patrick deWitt

#Compliment #Unusual

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
-- Paul McCartney

#Looks #Pool #Unusual

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.
-- Peter Ustinov

#Bird #Alternatives #Unusual

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.
-- Ralph Linton

#Science #Development #Unusual

It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once.
-- Ray Wylie Hubbard

#Unusual #Born

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.
-- Robert M. Fresco

#Medicine #Unusual

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
-- Robert Musil

#Book #Unusual #Cases

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
-- Robert Venturi

#Unusual #Building #Prettiness

The unusual wins out over the usual.
-- Sam Abell

#Winning #Usual #Unusual

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!
-- Sean Hannity

#Party #Slave #Unusual

This is not going to be business as usual. This is business unusual
-- Sebastian Coe

#Usual #Unusual

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

#Intelligent #Would Be #Unusual

My usual self is a very unusual self.
-- Shelagh Delaney

#Self #Usual #Unusual

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.
-- Thomas De Witt Talmage

#Years #Age #Unusual

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.
-- Tim Vine

#Vines #Cabinets #Unusual

When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . . There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
-- Tycho Brahe

#Stars #Sky #Unusual

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.
-- Verity Stob

#Language #Computer #Unusual

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
-- William Arthur Ward

#4th Of July #Generosity #Unusual

I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.
-- Arthur Bradford

#Plot #Want #Unusual

Wear an unusual accessory to complete your outfit.
-- Chelsea Leyland

#Accessories #Unusual

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.
-- Colin Callender

#Cheer #Unusual #Audience

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

#Unusual #Ifs

Angelina Jolie and I love each other. IF that's unusual these days, that's sad.
-- James Haven

#Unusual #These Days #Love Each Other

Ronald Reagan was unusual in being an authentic personality. Unlike many professional actors - and politicians - he was much the same behind the curtain as in front.
-- James M Strock

#Personality #Politician #Unusual

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.
-- James McNerney

#Negative #Tough #Unusual

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.
-- Jenni Olson

#Thinking #Film #Unusual

I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to study and learn, and I've always been that way.
-- Nola Ochs

#Way #Study #Unusual

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts.
-- Charles Williams

#People #Desert #Unusual

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.
-- Ian Bogost

#Fun #Strange #Unusual

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.
-- Jim Bolger

#Country #Thinking #Unusual