Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
By giving unusual people an easy way to find one another, the Internet has also enabled them to pool rare talents, resources,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights… — Alex Hirsch Copy Share Image
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of… — Neil Finn Copy Share Image
Your great country is wonderful at stealing pieces of history and using it for its own purposes, so there didn't seem to… — Michael Apted Copy Share Image
I had a very unusual childhood in that I grew up on the Stanford campus and I never moved. — Anne Wojcicki Copy Share Image
Travelling to make television programmes means I have some unusual food memories. In Pasto, Colombia, I was taken to a restaurant where… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you embrace the uncertain, life opens up unusual new paths. Seeds sown way back bloom as flowers, in ways one can… — Subroto Bagchi Copy Share Image
It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact,… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Like John Kennedy in 1960, Obama combines youth, vigor, and good looks with the promise of political change. Like Kennedy, he grew… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I've been on hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of auditions in my life, so it's not unusual that I went in for… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
The majority of my UFO diet consists of reports describing suspected encounters. This is not surprising, as there are thousands of sightings… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most.… — Robert Patterson Copy Share Image
As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all… — Robert Mueller Copy Share Image
I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body. — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
