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Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you. -- Jeanette Winterson
No subject is unsuitable for comedy. -- Peter Baynham
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer. -- Maeve Binchy
I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that. -- Martin Freeman
The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions. -- Henry A. Kissinger
My first marriage was totally unsuitable and shouldn't have happened. It was a whirlwind, rebound thing. I was 23 or 24 - a baby. -- Carol Vorderman
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
The Iraqi people are living a long-running tragedy because of the legacy of the old regime, the Americans and their actions that are unsuitable for Iraqi society, and the weakness of national resolve. -- Ahmed Chalabi
My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in unsuitable footwear. Of course you fell over and twisted your ankle, because you had high heels on. -- Sophie Aldred
The language 'It's too late' is very unsuitable for most environmental issues. It's too late for the dodo and for people who've starved to death already, but it's not too late to prevent an even bigger crisis. The sooner we act on the environment, the better. -- Jeremy Grantham
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work. -- Voltaire
I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading. -- Malorie Blackman
To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. -- Peter Sellers
I was in an industrial laboratory because academia found me unsuitable -- Benoit Mandelbrot
First guitars tend to be like first loves: ill-chosen, unsuitable, short-lived and unforgettable. -- Tim Brookes
Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. -- Marcus Aurelius
Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. -- Samuel Johnson
a good deal of childhood is strong stuff for adults and totally unsuitable for children. -- Philippa Pearce
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object. -- Georg Baselitz
The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. -- Henry Adams
I'd like to rebrand the whole thing that's called 'disability'. It's an unsuitable title in the modern world -- Viktoria Modesta
Any appellative at all savouring of arbitrary rank is unsuitable to a man of liberal and catholic mind. -- Herman Melville
Music and love are the only accomplishments of humanity which do not, in an absolute sense, have to be called attempts with unsuitable means. -- Georg Simmel
This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense. -- Bernd Becher
Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -- Albert Schweitzer
I am so used to plunging into the unknown that any other surroundings and form of existence strike me as exotic and unsuitable for human beings. -- Werner Herzog
Luke moved as silently as fog, while Maryse's heels sounded like gunshots on the marble floor. Clary wondered if Isabelle's propensity for unsuitable footwear was genetic. -- Cassandra Clare
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. -- Gustav Mahler
This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed. -- John Quincy Adams
Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully. -- John Steinbeck
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on. -- Terry Pratchett
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat. -- Peter Sellers
When television producers say it is the parents obligation to keep children away from the tube, they reach the self satire point of warning that their own product is unsuitable for consumption -- Gregg Easterbrook
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer. -- Jacob M. Appel
Maybe life involves the pairing of unsuitable people, those who wait and those who keep others waiting, and the key to happiness is finding the one person with whom you share the same internal chronometer." -- Jacob M. Appel

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