#unusual

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both. ↗

— Robert Musil

#book #both #cases #determine #good

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

It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. ↗

— Luis Gutierrez

#america #bit #came #fear #immigrants

I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. ↗

— Leni Riefenstahl

#depths #each #experienced #feel #heart

Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

#creative #creativity #disagreeable #envy #intimidating

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard. ↗

— Susie Bright

#enormous #experience #finding #get #heard

Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#mind #obvious #seldom #simple #solutions

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity. ↗

— George Grosz

#both #clarity #closely #drawings #every

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. ↗

— Robert Venturi

#employ #part #unusual #very