“I saw it on the Twitter of today, on the online boards. There was a huge amount of negative reaction that's been forgotten because the quality eventually shined through. But usually it takes people a while to see what they've got on their plate. And I think, with "Jessica Jones," it's this anomalous thing where, and because of the original property being so good, people saw it right away, which is very unusual.” PeopleThinkingTodayQualitySawsHugeAmountNegativeOriginalsPropertyForgottenReactionsBoardsOnlineGood PeopleUnusualPlatesJessicaJessica JonesNegative Reactions Author:Jane Espenson
“Many of the traits that make Amazon unusual are now deeply ingrained in the culture. In fact, if I wanted to change them, I couldn't. The cultures are self-reinforcing, and that's a good thing.” IfsSelfFactsWantedCultureGood ThingsUnusualTraitsAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“Being creative means first of all doing something unusual... On the other hand, however unusual it may be, the idea also has to be reasonable for people to take it seriously.” PeopleFirstsMayMeanIdeasHandsCreativeReasonableUnusualBe Creative Author:Howard Gardner
“Bowie has an unusual face. He's neither a man nor a woman. There's this aura of fantasy that surrounds him. He has flair.” MenFacesFantasySurroundUnusualAurasBowieFlair Author:Kansai Yamamoto
“I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.” HardLanguageReaderUnusual Author:Stephen Sondheim
“Metaphor impinges on everything, allowing us - poets and non-poets alike - to experience and think about the world in fluid, unusual ways.” ThinkingWorldWayPoetMetaphorAllowingUnusualFluid Author:James Geary
“It's true that I'm drawn to unusual stories. Normal roles don't really attract me.” StoriesRolesNormalUnusual Author:Eva Green
“These death sentences are cruel and unusual in the same way that being struck by lightning is cruel and unusual.” WaySentencesUnusualLightningDeath Sentence Author:Potter Stewart
“By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.” StillsAgeUsedHairPerformancesResponsibleSevenGrantedBirthdayUnusualIntricate60th BirthdayHairstylesCombsBunsHair Up Author:Janet Jackson
“The most unusual salesman I ever met is a fellow who made a modest fortune purveying lightning rods. But he suddenly lost interest in his work. He got caught in a storm with a bunch of samples in his arms.” MadeLostInterestArmsMetsFellowsFortuneCaughtStormBunchUnusualLightningModestSalesmanSample Author:Shelley Berman
“They had this movie called Juno about a teenage girl who gets pregnant and it's nominated for an Oscar. That's an unusual experience for me, 'cause when a black girl gets pregnant it ain't no Oscar. It's social work and a box of condoms is what that is.” GirlSocialCausesBlackBoxesUnusualPregnantOscarsTeenageSocial WorkCondomTeenage GirlBlack Girl Author:D. L. Hughley
“It was quite unusual to use the recorder as a concert instrument. But my mother, a pianist, actually helped me a lot by assuming that anything done on the piano can easily be done on the recorder! She helped me with technique and was just as critical about my playing as she was with her own. I think that has been one of my fortunes.” ThinkingHas BeensDoneUseMotherInstrumentsAssumingFortuneCriticalTechniquePianoConcertsUnusualPianistRecorders Author:Michala Petri
“In the world of comedy, having a partner is not the most unusual thing.” WorldComedyPartnersUnusualUnusual Things Author:Bobby Farrelly
“With my guy, every now and then, he puts on a mask and does that, but he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he isn't that. Most of the time that we see him, he's fun to hang around with. I think that's unusual, to that extent.” ThinkingDoeGuyFunMaskUnusualNow And Then Author:James Frain
“I played a couple of ideas and then had this unusual texture underneath which was like this little granulated kind of pipe organ almost like a scratchy record which he started [inaudible] brilliantly. "Oh I love that song." And when things go fine, it's good. So he started loving that song and that song was used quite a lot in the movie which is very granulated stuff on the guitar.” KindLittlesIdeasUsedSongStuffRecordsFineCoupleGuitarUnusualOrgansPipeTexturePipe Organs Author:A. R. Rahman
“I've always been attracted to unusual eyewear. I thought glasses were an interesting accessory, depending on the shape of your face. People would always ask me, "Why are your frames so large?" And I would say, "The bigger to see you!" And that shut them up.” PeopleFacesAsksInterestingShapesBiggerGlassesAsk MeYour FaceUnusualAccessoriesEyewear Author:Iris Apfel
“My father had a very unusual psychic ability, he could detect water. It's called divining. He would use a Y-shaped U-branch, and he could find water with that, which is a very impressive skill in a country where it rains 365 days of the year.” YearsCountryUseFatherWaterAbilitySkillsRainBranchesUnusualPsychicsImpressiveDays Of The YearPsychic AbilitiesVery Impressive Author:Craig Ferguson
“I was on Entourage last week smoking a bong and making out with hookers and I did show them that before, cause it wasn't a hard 'r' cause a lot of people are watching that show that they know, not my little one - she's 12, but very sophisticated so it's an unusual case.” PeopleKnowsLittlesHardShowsLastsCausesCasesWeekSmokingUnusualSophisticatedEntourageBongs Author:Bob Saget
“We are in an unusual predicament as a global civilization. The maximum that is politically feasible, even the maximum that is politically imaginable right now, still falls short of the minimum that is scientifically and ecologically necessary.” StillsFallCivilizationRight NowUnusualMinimumMaximumPredicaments Author:Al Gore
“If you like vanilla, you're not going to like 'Breaking Bad' - you need to like a specific flavor that is unusual, that is different, that takes risks.” IfsNeedsDifferentRiskUnusualFlavorVanilla Author:Bryan Cranston
“Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.” MayRememberTalentTeaUnusualMilkSugarConsoleSpilling Author:Rick Astley
“I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.” KnowsSometimesStuffUnusualJustinGaga Author:Marilyn Manson
“It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.” MayNightmareWakingUnusualPersistentWaking Life Author:Bertrand Russell
“A phenomenon occurs but because you're in the middle of it, you just think it's your life-until it's over. And then you look back and say, What an unusual thing happened to me in the '60s.” ThinkingLooksHappenedMiddleThings HappenPhenomenonUnusualUnusual Things Author:Paul Simon
“While asleep, I had an unusual experience. There was a red screen formed by flowing blood, as it were. I was observing it. Suddenly a hand began to write on the screen. I became all attention. That hand wrote a number of elliptic integrals. They stuck to my mind. As soon as I woke up, I committed them to writing.” WritingMindHandsNumbersAttentionBloodRedCommittedScreensStuckUnusualObserving Author:Srinivasa Ramanujan
“Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?” DifferentUnusual Author:Vivian Stanshall
“We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we actually shot the films so we were able to really break down the script and kind of work through all of the improvisational things that he wanted to do, so he had a chance to really feel his way through before we actually shot it and I think that helped a lot.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindAbleWantedFilmBitsChanceBreakWeekShotsScriptsUnusualBreaking DownRehearsalIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“The history of pop is a progression of underground styles going mainstream, so there's nothing unusual about the White Stripes or Franz Ferdinand selling records.” WhiteRecordsStylePopsSellingUnusualMainstreamProgressionStripesWhite Stripes Author:Sasha Frere-Jones
“When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.” WantLightLanguagePleasePhotographUnusualWant MeFrighteningEnglish LanguageYou Want MeDo You Want Me Author:John Loengard
“If the unusual never happened there would be no difference in people and then there wouldn't be any fun in life. The game would become merely a matter of addition and subtraction. It would make of us a race of bookkeepers with plodding minds. It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power.” PeopleIfsMenMindMatterWould BeGamesFunDifferencesRaceBrainHappenedUnusualGuessingBrain PowerSubtractionBookkeepers Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore
“In War, the young soldier is very apt to regard unusual fatigues as the consquence of faults, mistakes, and embarrassment in the conduct of the whole, and to become distressed and depondent as a consequence. This would not happen if he had been prepared for this beforehand by exercises in peace.” IfsWarWholeHappensYoungMistakeExerciseConsequenceRegardFaultsPreparedSoldierUnusualFatigueEmbarrassment Author:Carl von Clausewitz
“The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.” MightCommonPathToo MuchTroubleSweetFlowerComfortHappeningsDelightAbstractUnusualUnusual Things Author:Orison Swett Marden
“The great intellectual tradition that comes down to us from the past was never interrupted or lost through such trifles as the sack of Rome, the triumph of Attila, or all the barbarian invasions of the Dark Ages. It was lost after the introduction of printing, the discovery of America, the founding of the Royal Society, and all the enlightenment of the Renaissance and the modern world. It was there, if anywhere, that there was lost or impatiently snapped the long thin delicate thread that had descended from distant antiquity; the thread of that unusual human hobby: the habit of thinking.” IfsThinkingWorldHumansLongAgeAmericaPastLostDarkModernHabitIntellectualEnlightenmentDiscoveryTraditionTriumphUnusualRomeDelicateThreadHobbiesRoyalFoundingModern WorldIntroductionInvasionDark AgesRenaissanceTriflesPrintingAntiquityBarbariansInterruptedDiscovery Of America Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.” SoundPlayerUnusualMatingOboes Author:Steve Irwin
“It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.” YearsAbleActingSecretFourUniversityUnusualFour Years Author:Mackenzie Davis
“Poetry is very playful with language. I think all poetry, at its heart, is playful. It's doing unusual and playful things with the language, stirring it up. And prose is not doing that. Primarily it's not attempting to do that.” ThinkingHeartLanguageProsePoetry IsUnusualAttemptingStirring Author:Pattiann Rogers
“You surely know that in the course of a long marriage it is not unusual for a husband or a wife to develop a crush on someone else.” KnowsLongCoursesWifeHusbandCrushUnusualLong MarriageCrushing On Someone Author:Elizabeth Strout
“I want the situations and plots to be surprising and unusual.” WantSituationPlotUnusualSurprising Author:Arthur Bradford
“I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.” PeoplePersonsFitCategoriesDisabilityUnusual Author:Arthur Bradford
“The minute you start arming people in these conflict zones, things don't go as expected. We also need to look at precedent before making these decisions. Instead of listening to Muammar Qaddafi's rhetoric, we should look at how he's behaved. The fact is he's been making concessions recently. He gave up his nuclear weapons. He allowed hundreds of Americans to evacuate Tripoli. Did he crack down on his people who revolted? Yes, but that's not so unusual.” PeopleNeedsShouldLooksFactsDecisionMinutesListeningConflictWeaponsExpectedNuclearZoneCracksUnusualNuclear WeaponsRhetoricGave UpPrecedentConcessions Author:Michael Hastings
“Traveling and other cultures provide me with great inspiration, especially unusual people and cultures totally unlike my own. They generate many new ideas for me.” PeopleIdeasInspirationCultureMy OwnUnusualNew IdeasOther Cultures Author:Kansai Yamamoto
“When I was a kid I really liked the guitarist of The Doors [Robby Krieger]. He plays blues, but he plays a lot of melodic things. He plays scales that are kind of unusual, and some bent notes.” KindPlayKidsDoorsNotesScalesUnusualBentGuitarist Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I'm really fascinated by how the mob ethos permeates places like Las Vegas and Chicago. I have the book set in Las Vegas and Chicago for pretty specific reasons, some of which are that in both cases the mob history has become a tourist attraction - I'm actually doing a book signing in Las Vegas at The Mob Museum, which I am positively giddy about! - and I find that especially unusual. If you don't call these people "the Mafia" they're just a band of psychopaths killing people for profoundly dumb reasons.” PeopleIfsBookReasonCasesBandKillingAttractionDumbMuseumsChicagoUnusualFascinatedPositivelyMafiaVegasLas VegasTouristsSigningPsychopathEthosGiddy Author:Tod Goldberg
“It's an unusual way to write a crime novel, to have these lingering, fairly large story points, but it's something I knew I had to do if I wanted to write a sequel...but, you know, people still have to read and enjoy this book, or it's a moot point.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayWritingStillsBookStoriesWantedEnjoyNovelCrimeUnusualSequelsLingeringCrime Novels Author:Tod Goldberg
“My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.” IfsWould BeGirlFightingProduceDaughterExtraordinaryGlassesMy DaughterUnusualCeilingsSoundtracksGlass Ceiling Author:Ronee Blakley
“I'm always reading. And I keep a whole list of stories, often unusual stories. There are a hundred some-odd ideas on that list.” IdeasWholeStoriesReadingHundredListsOddUnusual Author:Joshuah Bearman
“My personal background is actually very unusual for the kind of career I chose. I didnt meet anyone who had ever done physics in my life. I grew up in the Himalayan forests. My father was a forest conservator, which meant that if I wasnt in school I was in the forests with him. That has been very largely responsible for my ecological inclinations.” IfsKindHas BeensDoneSchoolFatherCareersGrewGrew UpResponsiblePhysicsBackgroundsForestsUnusualInclinationEcological Author:Vandana Shiva
“The debut show, “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary,” is supposed to be about how artists reuse humble or unusual materials. There’s good work here, but much of what’s on view is actually more about obsession and repetition: a couch made out of 3,500 quarters, a necklace composed of 100 handgun triggers. The building, too, seems caught between wanting to be an object of decorative delectation and making an architectural statement.” ArtMadeShowsSeemsArtistViewsDesignObjectsBuildingMaterialsOrdinaryCaughtHumbleStatementsObsessionSupposed To BeMuseumsUnusualQuartersGood WorkRepetitionTriggersCouchesDebutNecklacesHandgunsReuse Author:Jerry Saltz
“I believe that one of the reasons Gravity Falls is such an unusual place, maybe part of the reason that the stoplights switch on and off at random times and cell phones don't get proper reception and compasses spin wildly - is because of the strange kinetic influence of the UFO buried just underneath everyone's feet.” BelieveReasonFallI BelieveFeetInfluenceStrangePhonesCellsBuriedUnusualGravityCompassUfoCell PhoneAnd OffReception Author:Alex Hirsch
“Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is.” KindEnvironmentHeatProductiveUnusualMaize Author:Bill Gates