Unusual Quotes · Page 8

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

— David Rockefeller

It was unusual to see a bald nine-year-old so I would play football in hats.

— Jonjo Shelvey

I always read what I write out loud, and I did that long before any radio thing. My editor finds that unusual.

— Ricky Jay

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

— Linda Moulton Howe

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

— Carrot Top

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

— John Twelve Hawks

I guess growing up, it was pretty much a normal life, as I got older I used to get into some fights…

— B. J. Penn

It's no great achievement to go along with the crowd. Be the unusual guy, the extraordinary guy.

— Darren Hardy

Back in the day I took a lot of supplements and tons of amino acids. Still do. But back then it was…

— Frank Zane

There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these…

— Lauren Shuler Donner

To build and strengthen new connections, the brain needs the challenge of fresh and unusual stimuli. … There's a lot of evidence…

— Robert Winston

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I…

— Liv Tyler

The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an…

— Eric Ries

Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of…

— Jacinda Ardern

I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That…

— Toby Young

Apparently, I'm very good at firing a gun without blinking, which is unusual. That's why so many action characters have to wear…

— Kate Beckinsale

Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown…

— Vaclav Havel

In 1999, I found a buffalo skull in the ground. There was just a little bit of it poking up. This was…

— Steven Rinella

Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects…

— Anonymous

I always, at least back then, struggled with emotion in writing. I felt like I could do odd, unusual things, but there…

— Ben Marcus

This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be…

— Donald Cram

I'm really grateful to Ryan Murphy for so much because he's fearless. He's so confident. He has a very unusual and unique…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I want to say that Russia is developing along a democratic path, this is without question so. No one should have any…

— Vladimir Putin

The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past.

— Lois Lowry

Why is it so unusual to see someone who's not a size eight on screen?

— Phoebe Fox

People are becoming more intimately acquainted with people who are different than them - it's not so unusual anymore.

— Viggo Mortensen

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

— Patrick deWitt

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

— Elia Kazan

Suburbia, to me, was the most fantastical, unusual place. I thought it was Disneyland.

— Gaby Hoffmann

I had unusual parents. We'd been to Europe. We'd been in the theater. We were sort of like the Addams Family.

— Mario Van Peebles

Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways

— Bryant Gumbel

I like the name Engelbert. It's unusual. But Humperdinck? Not so much.

— Engelbert Humperdinck

Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.

— Daryl Hall

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

— Bill Murray

I speak my mind. I'm not really afraid of things. I actually don't think that's that unusual.

— Kyrsten Sinema

Social media marketers have already shown unusual savvy in executing campaigns in Brazil.

— Ryan Holmes

the lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

— Michael Lewis

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

— Lori Lansens

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

— David Hockney