Unusual Quotes

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself, am strange and unusual.

The evidence for Jesus' resurrection is so strong that nobody would question it except for two things: First, it is a very unusual event. And second, if you believe it happened, you have to change the way you live.

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 the message from the printed page. I am always looking for some typical person or face that will tie the picture essay together in a human way.

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.

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 my past, dream of the future, and with unusual acuity I am allowed to experience the present moment. My strength renewed, my vision cleared, in the mountains I celebrate creation. On each journey I am reborn.

I'm a little bit more unusual so I consider myself as the black sheep.

Think about the fool who by his virtue can be found in a most unusual situation playing jester to the clown.

I was the only Black person on the set.

It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans.

Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow;

'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.

Back in pre-Revolutionary America cruel and unusual punishment meant the rack and burning at the stake... in more recent rulings it has been taken to mean the absence of cable television and denial of sex-change operations, or just overcrowding in the prisons.

The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people.

I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly

To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me.

Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

It is not morbidity which draws crowds to scenes of disaster or unusual joy.

It is the desire to participate in a moment when life breaks through to some higher level of intensity so that one's own life might take fire from that sudden spurted flame.

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, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

List of unusual deaths - This list of unusual deaths includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources

It's Not Unusual - "It's Not Unusual" is a song written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, first recorded by a then-unknown Tom Jones, after having first been offered to Sandie

Unusual vs. unusual - Unusual vs. unusual is a competitive bidding convention used in contract bridge by the opening side after an opponent has made an overcall showing two

Unusual Heat - Unusual Heat is the seventh studio album by British-American rock band Foreigner, released on June 14, 1991 by Atlantic Records. Recorded at several different

The Unusuals - The Unusuals is an American comedy-drama television series created by Noah Hawley that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009, in the U.S. and Global

Tales of the Unusual - Tales of the Unusual (世にも奇妙な物語 - 映画の特別編, Yo nimo kimyō na monogatari - Eiga no tokubetsuhen) is a 2000 Japanese horror anthology film directed by Mamoru

Unusual number - In number theory, an unusual number is a natural number n whose largest prime factor is strictly greater than n {\displaystyle {\sqrt {n}}} . A k-smooth

Unusual Suspects - Unusual Suspects may refer to: Unusual Suspects (Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser album), a 2010 album by Julia Fordham and Paul Reiser Unusual Suspects (album)

Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution - government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines, or cruel and unusual punishments. This amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, along with

Being creative means first of all doing something unusual.

.. On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.

My brother-in-law wrote an unusual murder story. The victim got killed by a man from another book.

Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.