Quotes About Unusual

It was an unusual environment. We're used to having the jotter arena at this time of year. It's unfortunate that it was that way, but both teams had to deal with it.

In an unpredictable and unpleasant world it was both unusual and very pleasant to hear what I wanted to hear.

brace yourself for feline taxidermy, disco balls, crystal chandeliers, and other oddities of decor.

Just the kind of girl I liked—the weirdo in the bunch." ? Anthony Kiedis, Scar Tissue

The familiar can be as shocking as the strange—when it is in the wrong place.

The Defenestration of Ermintrude Inch First published in Tales from the White Hart An unusual story from the White Hart, in which Harry Purvis seemingly meets his match when his wife discovers the location of his 'quantum mechanics lectures'. It also chronicles the move from the 'White Hart' to the 'Sphere', matching the move from the White Horse to the Globe, following the landlord, Lew Mordecai.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Sherlock Holmes had listened with the utmost intentness to the statement of the unhappy schoolmaster. His drawn brows and the deep furrow between them showed that he needed no exhortation to concentrate all his attention upon a problem which, apart from the tremendous interests involved must appeal so directly to his love of the complex and the unusual. He now drew out his notebook and jotted down one or two memoranda.

Se trata del proceso de separación de los Dundas [...]. El marido era abstemio, no existía otra mujer, y el comportamiento del que se quejaba la esposa consistía en que el marido había adquirido la costumbre de rematar todas sus comidas quitándose la dentadura postiza y arrojándosela a su esposa, lo cual, estará usted de acuerdo, no es la clase de acto que se le suele ocurrir a un novelista corriente.

Las cosas mas raras y singulares no se presentan con mucha frecuencia unidas a los crimines grandes, sino a los pequeños.

the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

A woman alone always seems a little unusual; it is not true that men respect women: they respect each other through their women—wives, mistresses, "kept" women; when masculine protection no longer extends over her, woman is disarmed before a superior caste that is aggressive, sneering, or hostile. As an "erotic perversion

A large number merely strange

I would like a cappuccino, says Linus politely. Thank you. Your name? I'll spell it for you, he says. Z-W-P-A-E-N-- What? She stares at him, Sharpie in hand. Wait, I haven't finished. Double F-hyphen-T-J-U-S. It's an unusual name, Linus adds gravely. It's Dutch.

We're just... friends. No, friends doesn't feel right. Not colleagues either. Not really acquaintances... OK. Let's face it. It's weird.

Trish and Eddie are darting glances at each other. They really are the oddest people.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

Making the most of your life is unusual. That's why you need to develop unusual habits to earn outstanding rewards.

You must be human . . . how weirdly exotic and excitingly perverse.

It's still strange.

you might have some funny charges, if you like.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

That's odd." ?Garland clicked his tongue.