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Quotes About Unusual

America's first Olympics may have been its worst, or at least its most bizarre.
~ Karen Abbott
that's as nutty as squirrel turds
~ P.C. Cast
No sabía qué pensar de aquel hombre caballo con quien debía permanecer casada durante un año. Era obvio que me interesaba. Después de todo, no había conocido nunca a nadie como él. Admitamos que no hay muchos centauros corriendo por Oklahoma, al menos por Tulsa. Una no podía saber lo que pasaba en el interior del Estado. P.C. Cast, En el lugar de la diosa
~ P.C. Cast
In the presence of the Unusual, Mr. Wooster is too prone to smile weakly and allow his eyes to protrude. He lacks Presence. I have often wished that I had the power to bestow upon him some of the savoir-faire of a former employer of mine, Mr. Montague-Todd, the well-known financier, now in the second year of his sentence.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
What a strange girl you are. Why Flung out of space, Carol said.
~ Patricia Highsmith
So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.
~ Richelle Mead
Everything in life is a bit odd, when you come to think of it.
~ William Boyd
he replied with unusual meekness – it just seems a terrible waste, Ruth, an awful waste of precious electricity. I now think he knew that he was soon going to die
~ William Boyd
Voytek is here, to fuck penguin.
~ William Gibson
who was Fezzik. Not your ordinary Hadassah
~ William Goldman
Lenin] wonders pugnaciously, however, whether a people 'influenced by the hopelessness of its situation' could be blamed for 'fling[ing] itself into a struggle that would offer it at least some chance of securing conditions for the further development of civilisation that were somewhat unusual'.
~ China Mieville
Está lo raro y lo raro imposible. Lo raro imposible es más interesante.
~ Chris Kraus
But I don't like this. It seems, I don't know. Weird.
~ Christa Faust
I want to say, Christina, that you are ... unusual. And somehow..." her voice trails off. "Your mind-- your curiosity-- will be your comfort.
~ Christina Baker Kline
The unusual, especially in sexual anomalies, is what the public wants to read with breakfast coffee.
~ Christine Jorgensen
I feel ashamed of my nation's reticence. Its desire to keep walking, to move on, not to comment, not to interrogate, not to take any interest in something peculiar, unusual, in anything that isn't entirely normal.
~ Helen Macdonald
Feet in the Gravy
~ Henry Cole
la palabra «teología» el regusto de una ciencia de la vida (y es tal vez la consecuencia de que, en los países latinos especialmente, estos textos sean percibidos como la más insólita y verdadera impertinencia).
~ Henry Corbin
Durante los debates parlamentarios de noviembre de 1949, recalcó esto al gritar (algo muy poco habitual en él):
~ Henry Kissinger
It was all so strange, so unlike what he had been looking forward to.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Bleeding, idleness and mist, he murmured in an unusual mood of poetry. It's like life, isn't it... First the wound, then the resting, and then the uncertainty of it all.
~ Leon Garfield
An unusual beginning must have an unusual end.
~ Lermontov
If Muhammad weren't standing lonely vigil on the mountain, you might say that there was no sign of anything unusual about him.
~ Lesley Hazleton
What made the marriage unusual, then, was not the age difference but its closeness, especially given the difference in social status between husband and wife. And the fact that it was she who proposed to him.
~ Lesley Hazleton