Unnatural Quotes - Page 9

• Architecture is what nature cannot make.
  Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

  Louis Kahn

  Architecture, Made

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• Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with them. You guys aren't just firearm enthusiasts — you're ammosexuals. And before you try and deny you have some sort of unnatural romantic relationship with your gun, consider this. You're taking it out to dinner! Because it completes you. Get a room.

  Bill Maher

  Gun, Names, People

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• The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

  Raph Koster

  Player, Years, Games

  "The Next Wave, #17" By Chris Kohler, www.ign.com. February 21, 2006.

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• Music is a work in progress. On a record, it gets frozen in time. And it's oddly unnatural.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Progress, Records, Frozen

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• It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Perfect

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “The Importance of Being Earnest: Revised Edition”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• "Just try and remember," I said slowly," that if God had intended men to fly He'd have given us wings. So all flying is flying in the face of nature. It's unnatural, wicked and stuffed with risks all the time. The secret to flying is learning to minimize the risks." "Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?"

  Gavin Lyall

  Men, Wings, Flying

  Gavin Lyall (2013). “Shooting Script”, p.27, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

  Helena Christensen

  Play, Voice, Use

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .

  Michel de Montaigne

  Self, Government, Judging

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.

  Ted Dekker

  Essence

  Ted Dekker (2012). “The Paradise Trilogy”, p.634, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• MSM is unnatural and not good for India. It is a disease which has come to India from other countries where men have sex with men.

  Ghulam Nabi Azad

  Country, Sex, Men

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• I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

  Kristen Stewart

  Movie, Thinking, People

  "Charlize Theron And Kristen Stewart". Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 29, 2012.

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• On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

  Sharon Tate

  Children, Two, People

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• The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

  Gore Vidal

  Giving, President, Behaviour

  "Gore Vidal claims 'Bush junta' complicit in 9/11" by Sunder Katwala, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.

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• What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.

  Joseph Heller

  Country, War, Fighting

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life.

  Ayn Rand

  Fate, Thinking, Suffering

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.580, Hamilton Books

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• Looting is a natural response to the unnatural and inhuman society of commodity abundance. It instantly undermines the commodity as such, and it also exposes what the commodity ultimately implies: the army, the police and the other specialized detachments of the state's monopoly of armed violence.

  Guy Debord

  Army, Police, Violence

  Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.33, Bread and Circuses Publishing

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.

  Michael Klaper

  Mother, Dog, Drinking

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• Fame is a very unnatural human condition. When you stop to realize that Abraham Lincoln was probably never seen by more than 400 people in a single evening, and that I can enter over 40 million homes in a single evening due to the power of television, you have to admit the situation is not normal.

  Chevy Chase

  Home, People, Television

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• She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

  Jane Austen

  Romance, Youth, Natural

  'Persuasion' (1818) ch. 4

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• No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?

  Richelle Mead

  Rose, Promise, Vampire

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.19, Penguin

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• The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

  Agatha Christie

  Girl, Men, Missing

  Agatha Christie (1984). “Thirteen at Dinner”, Berkley

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• Barbarianism is the natural state of mankind. Civilization is unnatural. It is the whim of circumstance. And barbarianism must ultimately triumph

  Robert E. Howard

  Civilization, Triumph, Natural

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• Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Writing, Piano, Novelists

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• Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another s soul.

  James Joyce

  Love, Life, Ocean

  James Joyce (1992). “Poems and Exiles”, ePenguin

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