#unusual

Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury. ↗

— Florence E. Allen

#called #fact #groups #had #here

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#every #every day #generous #lose #most

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

— Robert Venturi

#employ #part #unusual #very

One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#healthy #idea #illness #making #man

The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ↗

— Frank Miller

#biggest #bulwark #bunch #democracy #fall

We either believe in the dignity of the individual, the rule of law, and the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment, or we don't. There is no middle ground. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#cruel #dignity #either #ground #individual

I was an unusually private person - in a way, kind of insufferably so. I think I thought the celebrity thing when it happened was a temporary phenomenon, and I was above it. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#celebrity #celebrity thing #happened #i #i think

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#circumstance #every #i #made #me

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#giving #government #i #live #me

I used a baritone guitar with a very unusual tuning that became the body of the composition, while the classical guitar is on top of it with the main rhythm part. ↗

— Lee Ritenour

#became #body #classical #classical guitar #composition