Unusual quotes
133 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us."
"Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it -The Scarecrow - The Marvellous Land Of Oz by L. Frank Baum pg 103 chapter 13"
"Innovation has a lot to do with your ability to recognise surprising and unusual phenomena."
"Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef."
"The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature."
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"It's not any more unusual to be born twice than it is to be born once."
"As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things."
"Anyone who spends their life on a computer is pretty unusual."
"It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts."
"In a Tim Burton movie, you know it's going to be something unusual, or a bit mad. Something "other.""
"Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual."
"Everything in life is unusual until you become accustomed to it."
"Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways"
"It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources."
"Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually ."
"If an unusual necessity forces us onward, a surprising thing occurs. The fatigue gets worse up to a certain point, when, gradually or suddenly, it passes away and we are fresher than before!"
"The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it."
"One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood."
"I developed a pretty unusual style, I think."
"[9/11] was not meant to be argued with. It wasn't part of any negotiation. No message was intended with it. It spoke for itself, which is unusual."
"You're unusual. That's better than popular if you have some courage."
"We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary."
"It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface."
"There's nothing unusual about love."
"People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies."
