Unusual Quotes · Page 11

These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.

— Potter Stewart

I've had an unusual career in that I've never had a big break, but the rent always seemed to get paid.

— John Cho

Dancing all night and then vocal lessons right after was hard and not unusual - but I enjoyed it.

— Choi Si-won

In the '80s, to get a contemporary Scot who was smart, sexy and funny was very unusual.

— Denis Lawson

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood.

— E. M. Forster

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

— Marian Keyes

I don't know if six picks in a draft is a record, it's not the kind of thing I would look at,…

— Sam Hinkie

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much…

— Susie Bright

I try to get away. Its very unusual for me to be in one spot for so many months, which is one…

— Stana Katic

As an actor, to get a gift of a part like that is unusual. And then, to have the prospect of another…

— Brendan Gleeson

We're always steered towards what is good in the canon by a male perspective. I like to do plays with a female…

— Marianne Elliott

We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically…

— Al Gore

Not to belittle what we do as actors, but my wife Helen is a teacher, and she makes a real difference to…

— Colin O'Donoghue

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not…

— Erica Jong

The shows you can do in cable are just more buzzworthy and are about subject matter that's more unusual or dark. And…

— Robert Greenblatt

Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that…

— Margaret Bourke-White

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from…

— Will Self

Ranger is an unusual name," she managed. "Is it a nickname?" It's a street name," Ranger said. "I was a Ranger in…

— Janet Evanovich

Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If…

— Lee Salk

It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an…

— Robert Pattinson

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

“I know God has been found by unusual people in unusual places--in a sudden vision in a grove or orchard or grotto,…

— Eugene England

It is culturally constructed, but not unnecessary. A crisis is a period in a person's life that lasts at least a year…

— Oliver Robinson

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

— Rachel Bilson

I think my mother realized she had a somewhat unusual daughter pretty early on.

— Amber Heard

If you can do something exciting and unusual, you might as well give it a go.

— Chris Chibnall

It's very rare and unusual to see a female comic perform pregnant.

— Ali Wong

I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.

— John Lydon

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

— James Haven

The true painter must be able, with the most usual things, to have the most unusual ideas.

— Salvador Dali

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

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

— Charles Williams

To me, strange is just another way of saying unusual. And unusual is just another way of saying special

— Drew Hayden Taylor

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

— Martha Plimpton

I don't think there is anything unusual about a business losing money in certain years.

— Thomas Peterffy

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

— Julius Caesar

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

— Abbie Cornish

The good lord gave me a very unusual voice, and gave me the opportunity to learn how to use it.

— Thurl Ravenscroft