Unusual Quotes - Page 31

• I've had Botox, but then again pretty much everyone I know has. To me, Botox is no more unusual than toothpaste. It works. You do it once a year - who cares?

  Simon Cowell

  Years, Who Cares, Botox

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• It's very British to go about to see something unusual and paint it.

  David Hockney

  Paint, British

  "Sunlight, beaches and boys" by Edmund White, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2006.

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• More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have a talent that's special. It strikes me that I have an unusual kind of stamina.

  John Irving

  Two, Special, Half

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview in New York City, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• 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.

  Sidney Poitier

  Moving, People, Black

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• Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.

  Roger Rosenblatt

  Understanding, Example, Use

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• Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Travel, Climbing, Dancing

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 1963.

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• It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Aziraphale collected books. If he were totally honest with himself he would have to have admitted that his bookshop was simply somewhere to store them. He was not unusual in this. In order to maintain his cover as a typical second-hand book seller, he used every means short of actual physical violence to prevent customers from making a purchase. Unpleasant damp smells, glowering looks, erratic opening hours - he was incredibly good at it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Mean, Hands

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• What I discovered I liked best about striking out on my bicycle was that the farther I got from home, the more interesting and unusual my thoughts became.

  Richard Russo

  Travel, Home, Interesting

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• The difference between a house and a home is like the difference between a man and a woman-- it might be embarrassing to explain, but it would be very unusual to get them confused.

  Daniel Handler

  Confused, Home, Men

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• I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

  Aldous Huxley

  Morning, Flower, Miracle

  1954 The Doors of Perception.

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• Great investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, War, Opportunity

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• Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.

  Bill Murray

  Stripes, Underwear, Chicks

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• The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual.

  Michael Jackson

  Ideas, Different, Lines

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from May 05, 2014

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• Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.

  Edward Abbey

  Mother, Pie, Tradition

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was unusual for women of my generation. For most girls growing up in the '40s, the most important degree was not your B.A., but your M.R.S.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

  "Happy 83rd Birthday, Ruth Bader Ginsburg!" by Marina Fang, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 15, 2016.

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• There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.

  Dyrol Burleson

  Running, Victory, Adults

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• 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.

  Wolfhart Pannenberg

  Religious, Jesus, Strong

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• In one African myth the word for God is even identical with skill and capacity. The Godhead is defined as that thing which appears in man as the mystery of an unusual skill or capacity. It is something divine, a spark of the divinity in him, not his own possession or achievement, but a miracle.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Men, Skills, Miracle

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Creation Myths: Revised Edition”, p.110, Shambhala Publications

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• I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

  David Livingstone

  Christian, Found, Uncommon

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• Audacious faith is the raw material that authentic Christianity is made of. It's the stuff that triggers ordinarily level-headed people like you and me to start living with unusual boldness.

  Steven Furtick

  People, Stuff, Raw Materials

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• Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Mistake, Double Standard, World

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• She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Dog, Mind, Special

  Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Fifty years in the doghouse”

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• We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, People

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

  Robert Sylvester

  Brother, Book, Men

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