Unusual Quotes - Page 15

• My usual self is a very unusual self.

  Shelagh Delaney

  Self, Usual

  Shelagh Delaney (2014). “A Taste of Honey”, p.38, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Heart, Hands, Giving

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Jane Eyre: Easyread Large Edition”, p.312, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• although she went home that night feeling happier than she had ever been in her short life, she did not confuse the golf course party with a good party, and she did not tell herself she had a pleasant time. it had been, she felt, a dumb event preceded by excellent invitations. what frankie did that was unusual was to imagine herself in control. the drinks, the clothes, the instructions, the food (there had been none), the location, everything. she asked herself: if i were in charge, how could i have done it better?

  E. Lockhart

  Short Life, Party, Home

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• ...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

  Anne Tyler

  Adventure, Vacation, Dying

  Anne Tyler (1982). “Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things did not stick to her. If we were hurt, if we were unhappy or otherwise victimized by life, she seemed to know about it, and to care, as soon as we did. But bad things falling on her -- unkind words, nasty stares, foot blisters -- she seemed unaware of. I never saw her look in a mirror, never heard her complain. All of her feelings, all of her attentions flowed outward. She had no ego.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hurt, Fall, Mirrors

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• Oh, yes, she's unusual!' he said bitterly. 'She blurts our whatever may come into her head;she tumbles from one outrageous escapade into another;she's happier gromming horses and hobnobbing with stable-hands than going to parties; she's impertinent; you daren't catch her eye for fear she should start to giggle; she hasn't any accomplishments; I never saw anyone with less diginity; she's abominable, and damnably hot at hand, frank to a fault, and-a darling!

  Georgette Heyer

  Horse, Party, Eye

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• Behold the Drojim Palace," King Urgit said extravagantly to Sadi, "the hereditary home of the House of Urga." "A most unusual structure, You Majesty," Sadi murmured. "That's a diplomatic way to put it." Urgit looked critically at his palace. "It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

  David Eddings

  Kings, Home, House

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• It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.

  James Herriot

  Morning, Sunday, Animal

  James Herriot (2012). “Vet in Harness”, p.7, Pan Macmillan

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• There's nothing unusual about love.

  Charles Bukowski

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• I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Tired, Heart, Voice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Character, Impact, Perspective

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• I just saw a copy of a cover of a magazine that I'm on, and it's very weird and unusual.

  Mia Kirshner

  Magazines, Saws, Copies

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• Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.

  Jeff Bezos

  Book, Technology, Giving

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• I might believe I had unusual talent if I did not know what good music was; I might enjoy half an hour's practice a day if I were busy and happy the rest of the time. You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning.

  Jane Addams

  Sweet, Morning, Believe

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• I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Always Trying, Different

  Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 01, 1994.

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• I'm from the Delbert Home for the Unusual.

  Jonathan Winters

  Home

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• Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.

  Lee Strasberg

  Dream, New York, Stars

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• What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.

  Danica McKellar

  Children, Health, Parent

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• In those same decades, most UFO sightings were made in the daytime and frequently at close range, when shapes and surface features could be distinguished, thus making positive identification of normal sights easier and the descriptions of unusual sights more detailed. When all normal explanations had been eliminated, the witnesses could concentrate on those aspects of the experience which were most abnormal.

  Don Berliner

  Sight, Abnormal, Shapes

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• This is largely the methodology I've used throughout my career - that is, starting with a question as to what might be the properties of a set of compounds that could be invented which were unusual and unpredictable. Many times I've felt a bit like Columbus setting sail.

  Donald Cram

  Inspirational, Funny, Careers

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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• 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.

  Tom Clancy

  Sex, Taken, Mean

  "Executive Orders". Book by Tom Clancy, p. 613, 1996.

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• All successful employers are stalking men who will do the unusual, men who think, men who attract attention by performing more than is expected of them.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Successful, Men, Thinking

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.25, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher

  Dan Simmons

  Teacher, Being A Teacher

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• It's an unusual situation for me to be working and making a living.

  Martha Plimpton

  Situation, Making A Living

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