Unusual Quotes · Page 12

Time itself is talked about as something that is unusual, that there could be a parallel time.

— Timothy Spall

I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for…

— Colin Callender

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

— Mia Kirshner

I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.

— Eoin Colfer

A few of the artists knew my name, because I have an unusual name, from Rolling Stone.

— Jancee Dunn

I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.

— Jane Goldman

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

— Lily Cole

Average is for the average. Don't try to fit in with the norm...how egregiously mundane.

— Christel Tait

An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to…

— Washington Allston

I think the real reason is that life has no meaning. I mean, no obvious meaning. You wake up, you go to…

— Susan Orlean

Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation…

— Colleen Coble

Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material…

— Jeff Bridges

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who…

— Chiaki Kuriyama

The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.

— Clive Barker

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic…

— Millard Sheets

There's no question that public opinion is changing, and if you're a person of the left, your goal is presumably to try…

— Norman Finkelstein

I do music mainly just for myself in the beginning, and of course it's great when I get a reaction, but I'm…

— Erik Wiegand

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual…

— Jeff Dunham

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a…

— Thorstein Veblen

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for…

— George Meredith

It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in…

— Emily Procter

None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach…

— Warren Buffett

When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an…

— Stanley Kubrick

I'm quite unusual in directing terms: I'm a woman. I'm quite a girly girl. I was never academic.

— Marianne Elliott

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

— Alfred North Whitehead

It is not unusual to send someone to conduct an interview you don't have time to conduct. It's what we do.

— Rick Bragg

Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena.

— Herbert Simon

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

— Lilly Pulitzer

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon…

— David Livingstone

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

— Marissa Mayer

And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.

— Steve Irwin

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

— William Allen White

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

— Chuck Jones

Valuing unusual conduct is not as good as being careful about ordinary actions.

— Zicheng Hong

It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of…

— Kristen Welker

People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.

— Lady Gaga

It's unusual for me to be in front of an audience without somebody trying to knock my teeth out.

— Ricky Hatton

I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

— Dan Simmons

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

— Barbara Pym