Best Unusual Lines
544 Unusual quotes by 468 unique authors
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God really is in the business of blessing his people in unusual ways so his goodness and his greatness will be declared among all peoples.
— David Platt
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When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for…
— Grenville Kleiser
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There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse,…
— Alfred Kinsey
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Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
— Ettore Sottsass
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Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this…
— Liv Tyler
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It is well-known that chess and music go well together, and many are those who have achieved unusual proficiency in both.
— Savielly Tartakower
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Looking at numbers as groups of rocks may seem unusual, but actually it's as old as math itself. The word "calculate" reflects that legacy -…
— Steven Strogatz
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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…
— Ralph Linton
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Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.
— William Allen White
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In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's…
— Delia Smith
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Truth and Truthfulness is an ambitious work, and its journeys into history give it a breadth unusual in these days of increased academic specialization. .…
— Julian Baggini
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Mountains are cathedrals: grand and pure, the houses of my religion. I go to them as humans go to worship...From their lofty summits, I view…
— Anatoli Boukreev
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I've seen men who thought they were brave turn out to be shameful cowards. Other people, who thought they were capable of the utmost self-sacrifice,…
— Unknown Author
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It's an unusual opportunity, a chance for so many people to share in the excitement and the fun of the fact that we may be…
— Saul Perlmutter
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Careful observation will confirm that virtually all spontaneous parapsychological events occur through some form of sleight of mind. It is invariably something hovering just below…
— Peter J. Carroll
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I share this interest in the weird, strange, unusual, surreal.
— Peter Greenaway
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My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally…
— Chiaki Kuriyama
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In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck…
— Bertrand Russell
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Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.
— Jim Rohn
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Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual.
— Bill Gates
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Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The unusual wins out over the usual.
— Sam Abell
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I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My favorite of the…
— Peter Mayle
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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…
— Peter Ustinov
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Life wanted faces that would express what we wanted to tell. Not just the unusual or striking face, but the face that would speak out…
— Margaret Bourke-White
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