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“I love inventing names, but I also collect unusual names, so that I can look through my notebook and choose one that suits a new character.”

Looks I Can Character Names Suits Unusual Notebook Inventing Unusual Names

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Safe from the Neighbors is a novel of unusual richness and depth, one that's as wise about the small shocks within a marriage as it is about the troubled history of Mississippi. Steve Yarbrough is a formidably talented novelist, shuttling between the past and present with a grace that feels effortless.”

Feels Past Novel Grace Wise Safe Depth Neighbor Novelists Shock Unusual Richness Mississippi Past And Present Effortless

Author:Tom Perrotta

“It [the memoir "In The Body of the World"] wrote me. I joke about it, but this book was so unusual. It just started to come out. I really feel like it came straight from my body. I think it was both an expression of what I had gone through, but also it just felt like everything had come together in my body and it needed to tell that story.”

Thinking World Feels Book Stories Body Together Felt Gone Expression Needed Jokes Memoir Unusual

Author:Eve Ensler

“Back in high school, I wrote a novel about a character named Bart Simpson. I thought it was a very unusual name for a kid at the time. I had this idea of an angry father yelling "Bart," and Bart sounds kind of like bark - like a barking dog.”

Kind Ideas Character Kids School Father Names Sound Novel Dog High School Angry Unusual Bark Yelling Barking Dogs Unusual Names Bart Simpson

Author:Matt Groening

“In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.”

Men Self States Values United United States Intimate Unusual Masculine Revealing Mystique Adherence Deep Friendship

Book:Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

Source: Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence

“I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'”

People Bigs Used Girl Sound Voice Church Unusual Choir Church Choir Small Girl

Author:Jennifer Hudson

“Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.”

Problem Joy Parent Dog Source Unusual Single Parent

Author:Jenna Morasca

“People always say to me, Youre really attractive - in an unusual way. No one ever just says, Youre attractive.”

People Way Attractive Unusual

Author:Carrot Top

“Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.”

Matter Sound Produce Shapes Unusual Architect Bricks Succession

Author:Constant Lambert

“Coast to Coast AM may just be the most unusual show I have ever witnessed or been a part of. You really almost have to be born into that arena, I think, in order to handle it. I was very lucky in that's the way I was guiding my own career. It was this thirst to really get to the bottom of some of these stories that kept pushing me.”

Thinking Way May Stories Shows Order Born My Own Careers Lucky Bottom Handle Pushing Unusual Thirst Coast Arena

Author:George Noory

“The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.”

Book Young Father Nations Process Powerful Secret Written Journey Unusual Haunting Secret Life Personal History

Author:Alan Lightman

“If I have an unusual gift, it's not that I draw particularly better than other people - I've never fooled myself about that. Rather it's that I remember things other people don't recall: the sounds and feelings and images - the emotional quality - of particular moments in childhood. Happily an essential part of myself - my dreaming life - still lives in the light of childhood.”

People Ifs Stills Moments Feelings Dream Light Remember Sound Quality Childhood Emotional Particular Essentials Draws Unusual Recalls Fooled Still Life

Author:Maurice Sendak

“It is very unusual for a country to ask guys who are not politicians to come and run the country.”

Country Running Guy Asks Politician Unusual

Author:Mario Monti

“It is rather unusual for Italy to be at the forefront of pro-market initiatives.”

Unusual Initiative

Author:Mario Monti

“A reader is entitled to believe what he or she believes is consonant with the facts of the book. It is not unusual that readers take away something that is spiritually at variance from what I myself experienced. That's not to say readers make up the book they want. We all have to agree on the facts. But readers bring their histories and all sets of longings. A book will pluck the strings of those longings differently among different readers.”

Want Believe Book Different Facts Reader Agree Longing Strings Unusual Entitled Pluck Variance Consonants

Author:Richard Ford

“Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.”

Father Lost Successful Library Incredibles London Unusual Businessman Immediate Family

Author:Anthony Horowitz

“But when we start to focus in on what our own mind is up to, for instance, it is not unusual to quickly go unconscious again, to fall back into an automatic-pilot mode of unawareness. These lapses in awareness are frequently caused by an eddy of dissatisfaction with what we are seeing or feeling in that moment, out of which springs a desire for something to be different, for things to change.”

Source: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“I have a few unusual fans, as you can imagine, so I try to protect the privacy of my home life.”

Trying Home Imagine Fans Protect Privacy Unusual Home Life

Author:Karin Slaughter

“When dictators feel their support slipping among adults, it is not unusual for them to alter school textbooks in the hope of enlisting impressionable youths in their cause.”

Feels School Causes Support Youth Adults Unusual Dictator Textbooks Slipping Impressionable Enlisting

Author:Samantha Power

“He's managed to make himself something highly unusual for a man at this stage of his career: unclassifiable. Unpredictable. Tom Jones is no joke”

Men Careers Stage Jokes Unusual Toms Unpredictable

Author:Ken Tucker

“I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.”

Wells Would Be Used House Rounds Unusual Mates Aunt Typewriters Liverpool Mimi

Author:Paul McCartney

“One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.”

Knows Games Winning Impossible Unusual

Author:Jesse Schell

“As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.”

Knows World Book Kids Know How Objects Fit Stores Newspapers Comic Department Unusual Bookstores Department Stores

Author:Ben Katchor

“If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.”

Ifs Would Be Planets Intelligent Unusual Intelligent Life

Author:Seth Shostak

“The job of the poet (a job which can't be learned) consists of placing those objects of the visible world which have become invisible due to the glue of habit, in an unusual position which strikes the soul and gives them a tragic force.”

World Giving Art Soul Jobs Poetry Force Position Objects Poet Habit Dues Strikes Invisible Visible Tragic Unusual Glue

Author:Jean Cocteau

“If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the sum of all sounds and words ever uttered by every human who has ever lived. To declare that Earth must be the only planet with life in the universe would be inexcusably bigheaded of us.”

Ifs Humans Would Be Earth Universe Sound Example Planets Aliens Unusual Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“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.”

Way Years Used Deals Environment Team Unusual Unfortunate Championship Arena Nba Championships Nba Finals

Author:Erik Spoelstra

“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.”

World Technology Standards Innovation Bottom Entrepreneurship Unusual

Author:Iqbal Quadir

“I always had a very open mind and a very open heart. I always look for the good in everybody and the God in everybody. I play to that. And I just love people. I love the difference in people. I love getting to know people. I appreciate getting accepted myself, because I know I'm unusual. And I love the unusual in other people.”

People Knows Mind Looks Heart Play Differences Appreciate Accepted Unusual Open Mind Open Heart

Author:Dolly Parton

“I'm in the storytelling business, and so you're always drawn to the unusual. And early on, I discovered that's the easiest way to tell stories... If you come up through a newspaper as I did, your whole goal is to get a story on the front page, and you only get something on the front page if it's unusual.”

Ifs Way Whole Stories Goal Fronts Pages Come Up Newspapers Storytelling Unusual

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too.”

Writing Actors Mark Competition Crowds Singers Dancer Performers Unusual Unlikely Great Writers

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“Reggie Watts is a most unusual talent: a huge vocal range, a natural musicality, and a sidesplitting wit. Is he a comedian? A singer? A performance artist? I've seen him a few times since then and I still can't decide. Whatever, he ain't like nobody else.”

Stills Artist Natural Talent Huge Performances Singers Wit Comedian Range Unusual Vocal Musicality

Author:Brian Eno

“In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.”

Giving Rooms Arms Offers Manners Gentleman Unusual Etiquette Dining Proceeding Dining Rooms

Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

Source: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales

“This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregiousof sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.”

Thinking Self Religion Sin Steps Unusual Examination Protestantism Self-examination Unusual Things

Author:Stendhal

“Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.”

Ifs Feels Children Book Home Care Reading Asks Parent Interest Rooms Imagine Style Skills Our Children Breathe Teenager Your Children Pushing Unusual Nurture Quirky Nonconformist

Author:Alexandra Robbins

“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”

Way Simple Common Modern Claims Complicated Contrary Physics Common Sense Unusual Another Way Relativity Modern Physics

Book:Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“Avoid an unusual and unfamiliar word just as you would a reef.”

Unusual Obscurity Unfamiliar Reefs

Author:Julius Caesar

“As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.”

Fear Results Confidence Unusual Fearful Defects Unknown Things

Author:Julius Caesar

“This is a rather unusual situation in physics. We perform approximate calculations which are valid only in some regime and this gives us the exact answer. This is a theorist's heaven- exact results with approximate methods.”

Giving Science Heaven Answers Results Situation Mathematics Method Physics Unusual Regimes Calculations Theorists

Author:Nathan Seiberg

“Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it.”

Ifs Would Be Class Advice Offers Gentleman If I Could Unusual Commencement Ladies And Gentlemen Sunscreen Wear Sunscreen

Author:Mary Schmich

“It doesn't seem too unusual to have a live hermit crab here in Atlantic City, but when you think I brought it all the way from Texas, it's unusual.”

Thinking Way Seems Cities Texas Unusual Hermits Crabs Atlantic City Hermit Crabs

Author:Phyllis George

“There are plenty of team players in government who do whatever the leader says. There are too few difficult members, who have complicated minds, unusual perspectives, the toughness to withstand the party-line barrages and a practical interest in producing results.”

“... it was not very unusual at Washington for a lady to take the arm of a gentleman, who was neither her husband, her father, norher brother. This remarkable relaxation of American decorum has been probably introduced by the foreign legations.”

Has Beens Father Brother Arms Morality Husband Gentleman Remarkable Unusual Relaxation Decorum

Author:Frances Trollope

“It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.”

Ifs Writing Years Looks Stuff Chance Resources Unusual Pool Teenage Good Chance Teenage Years

Author:Paul McCartney

“I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.”

People Seems Used Artist Waiting Careers Rounds Corners Decades Suits Contempt Unusual Diamond Concealed

Author:Nick Lowe

“It's always been strange to me that someone can say they're a vampire fan. I'm not a non-fan, but it's such an unusual thing to be a fan of. That's like saying, "I love zombie movies! I just love 'em! They're my favorite!" That's more of a psychological problem than being an actual fan.”

Problem Fans Strange My Favorite Psychological Vampire Ems Unusual Zombie Zombie Movie Unusual Things Psychological Problems

Author:Robert Pattinson

“Poignant, earthy, intensely human, Letters From A Stranger is a love story that is as unusual and courageous as its characters.”

Humans Character Stories Letters Stranger Love Story Courageous Unusual Poignant

Author:Elizabeth Lowell

“It is so wonderful to our neurologists that a man can see without his eyes, that it does not occur to them that is just as wonderful that he should see with them; and that is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual, the wise man wonders at the usual.”

Men Should Doe Wisdom Eye Differences Wonder Wise Wonderful Sight His Eyes Latter Unusual Usual Unwise Neurologists

Book:A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

Source: A Year with Emerson: A Daybook

“It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual”

Thinking Mistake Creative Activity Unusual

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.”

Source: Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes

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