Quotes About Unusual

So I'd been called the Barbara Walters of weird shit.There's weird shit and then there's weird shit.

Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow

Whenever the word 'weird' is mentioned it can only be an insult.

A story must be exceptional enough to justify its telling. We storytellers are all ancient mariners, and none of us is justified in stopping wedding guests, unless he has something more unusual to relate than the ordinary experiences of every average man and woman.

Der Einzelfall ist nie gewöhnlich: das Allergewöhnlichste für den Gedanken und die Aussage sind Geburt und Tod: wohne aber einer Geburt bei oder einem Sterben und frage dich, frage die Kreißende oder den Abscheidenden, ob das etwas Gewöhnliches ist!

Another Boston Globe editorial complained that the burden of proof "now shifts to the plaintiff "10—as if this were an unusual place for the burden of proof to be.

You're here because you're odd. Exceptional Unrelenting, Jane followed me to the edge of the circle. "You're unusual, Georgiana. And that is far more dangerous than any fire."

the odd tooth?

A thin pig was about as common as balls on a scarecrow.

I was exhilarated, but also guarded. We were on show. There was nobody around for hundreds of thousands of miles. But there was a camera and a radio and many millions of people watching. We were aware of that, and that causes you to focus your attention and make sure you aren't making mistakes. You're on stage, but it's a very unusual stage.

In addition, the more unusual or creative your system, the better. This will reduce tedium, inject some novelty into the process, and lead to the establishment of stronger mental connections.

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was the hippo squatting on my head.

William whispered, "You're about to find out how your liver tastes, my friend." "I have tasted it already," Zacharel said, his voice its usual monotone. The snowflakes began to fall in earnest, tiny at first, but growing in diameter. An arctic wind blustered around. "It was a bit salty." How the hell was a guy supposed to respond to that?

If you finish eating this food, I'll get you a whole herd of giant donkeys." "That's the strangest bribe I've ever heard of

Everyone here seems to have some weird secret or other.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

It's like going to the zoo when you come to my house. I have snakes, three sharks, moray eels, piranhas, five scorpions and a bird spider.

When I visit my brother in South Africa, I order things I've only seen in zoos. Little deers and kudu, all the mammals you would never think of eating.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

For some people, showing up at a bridal salon without a ring or a groom might appear bizarre and quite unusual--but for me, it's a regular Tuesday afternoon.

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

You'd be amazed at the number of people who want to introduce themselves to you in the men's room. It's the most bizarre part of this entire thing.

Be assured, he is not an ordinary man.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.