Unusual Quotes - Page 20

• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Christopher Walken

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Filing Cabinet

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• I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Light, Laptops

  Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.

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• It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Power, Young, Young Women

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• I recited Pi to 22,514 decimal points in five hours and nine minutes. I was able to do this because of weeks of study, aided by the unusual synaesthesic way my mind perceives numbers as complex multidimensional coloured and textured shapes.

  Daniel Tammet

  Numbers, Mind, Shapes

  "This much I know" by John Hind, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2009.

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• When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

  Will Self

  Giving, Creative, Criticism

  "Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure" by Will Self, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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• Islam is unusual in that it's the only one of the great world religions which was born inside recorded history. That there's an enormous amount of factual historical record about the life of a prophet and about social conditions in Arabia at that time. So it's possible to look at the origin of Islam in a scholarly way.

  Salman Rushdie

  World Religions, Historical, Islam

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• I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.

  Arthur Bradford

  Plot, Want, Situation

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

  Robert Winston

  Usual, Three, Phases

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• It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Years, Secret, Acting

  "Mackenzie Davis: Girl on Fire". Interview with Logan Sykes, www.harpersbazaar.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Some time ago," he said, "--how long it seems! -- I remember saying to a young friend of mine of the name of Spiller, 'Comrade Spiller, never confuse the unusual with the impossible.' It is my guiding rule in life.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Young Friends, Names, Long

  P. G. Wodehouse (2013). “The Psmith Omnibus”, p.422, eBookIt.com

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• Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

  George Eliot

  Real, Lying, Heart

  Middlemarch bk. 2, ch. 20 (1871 - 1872)

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• Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Character, Eye, Passion

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

  Paul Stamets

  Years, Europe, Mushrooms

  "Agarikon: Ancient Mushroom for Modern Medicine" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2012.

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• We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we actually shot the films so we were able to really break down the script and kind of work through all of the improvisational things that he wanted to do, so he had a chance to really feel his way through before we actually shot it and I think that helped a lot.

  Duncan Jones

  Thinking, Able, Way

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• Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Growth, Renaissance

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• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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• The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Sweet, Flower, Unusual Things

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• After I had given up to go, the thoughts of the journey were often attended with unusual sadness, at which times my heart was frequently turned to the Lord with inward breathings for his heavenly support, that I might not fail to follow him wheresoever he might lead me.

  John Woolman

  Heart, Sadness, Journey

  John Woolman (2013). “journal”, p.87, Lulu.com

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

  Steve Irwin

  Player, Sound, Oboes

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• [This kind of strange mythology about me.] I've pulled a huge steamboat over a mountain; I've done a feature film with all the actors acting under hypnosis - things that are very unusual.

  Werner Herzog

  Hypnosis, Acting, Mountain

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Lori Lansens

  Winning, Unlikely, Lottery

  Source: www.elle.com

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• We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Love, Unusual Things, Secret

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• Samuel Fuller pictures were both written and shot in such an unusual way that his voice came through loud and clear, and it made a big impression on me.

  Curtis Hanson

  Voice, Way, Made

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Planning, Share

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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