Quotes About Unusual

I ate some pretty funky, authentic Chinese food in Hong Kong. There was an egg from some bird that's not a chicken. I can't remember what it was, but it was green and brown and not very tasty.

I signed a baby's head one time, which I thought was an odd situation. I had a guy show me a tattoo one time, and he wanted me to sign the tattoo. So I signed the tattoo, and he went across the street and had the signature tattooed.

I felt strange, kind of disoriented, but I didn't hurt.

If one person stops to see your beggarman laying bricks in the street, more will do the same. They will gather like dust bunnies. Then, given a gentle push, they will enter your museum or watch your show. To create a crowd you have to do something different and odd. Any kind of curiosity will serve the purpose, for crowds are magnetically attracted by the unusual and inexplicable.

In that respect, Gus was unusual, for most men didn't talk. He would blab right up until he shoved his old carrot in, and then would be blabbing again, before it was even dry.

Olaf was smiling, bending over so he could hear what she was saying. Whatever she said, it made him laugh. I'd never seen him laugh. It was a little unnerving, like seeing your dog sit up and try to hold a conversation with you. I mean, you know the dog communicates, but it's not supposed to speak the queen's English.

This is the specialty of the trattoria," Luigi Two announces. " Spaghetti con cozze e parmigiana. There is parmesan cheese also on the pasta. It is very unusual and interesting." " Unusual and interesting" might be okay in a modern art museum , I think, but not for food! We're teenage girls--doesn't he realize we'd much rather have pizza?

It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace.

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

Stranger things have happened. And do, with alarming regularity.

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At twenty-four, it was my last chance to reject something and become nothing. I wanted to terrify myself. Mission accomplished.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

For us that is not a particularly striking event, but for a Muslim country to allow a Christian school to remain open when others were closed was indeed unusual.

There's nothing unusual about it, but the ordinary is where the extraordinary likes to hide.

axle-grease, grass, toothpaste, fish-milkshake and raw horseflesh.

I have an unusual type of thinking. I have no visual memory whatsoever. Everything is conceptual to me.

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.

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.

I'm not an ordinary prisoner.

I have one of those faces that you're not going to forget. Kids are scared of me.

I'm in a unique situation in every facet of my life.

I don't do this watching telly thing. I realise I am strange.

Looking like a rake with two plastic tangerines tied to it

and looked at Loren Page, who had taken on a strange look.