#unusual

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances

Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#childhood #drag #eccentric #freaks #girl

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. ↗

— Charles Williams

#getting #good #good people #people #pleasant

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left. ↗

— Oliver Platt

#dying #find #left #many #out

OK, he and Katie fell in love, they're getting married. Why is this in the news? Why is this a big deal? Is there something unusual about meeting someone and falling in love? ↗

— Mimi Rogers

#big #big deal #deal #falling #falling in love

It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#charming #commercial #film #fun #funny

Resistance is common to the unusual. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #resistance #unusual #life

I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. ↗

— Lana Del Rey

#chameleon #elizabeth-woolridge-grant #life #lyrics #moral-compass

Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#because #challenged #chefs #chemistry #consider

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - "indoctrination," we might say - exercised through the mass media. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#control #democracies #exercised #ideological #indoctrination