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Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually Good. Do you realize that? -- Bob Kerrey
Unusually rapid growth cannot keep up forever; when a company has already registered a brilliant expansion, its very increase in size makes a repetition of its achievement more difficult. -- Benjamin Graham
Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D. -- Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
America is an unusually religious nation. -- Rodney Stark
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. -- William James
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. -- Dan Hill
One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood. -- Alison Gopnik
My father, unusually for a PoW, talked about his experiences, but he talked about them in a very limited way. -- Richard Flanagan
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
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother. -- Maya Lin
When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I am unusually Halloween-attentive, because, as it happens, I was born on Halloween, so for me it has always been an occasion of great moment. -- Susan Orlean
I have been unusually blessed in that I've been allowed to pursue two strands of a career that both delight me and seem to please the public. -- Michael Palin
I was probably unusually close to my parents, so I do what I can now to preserve the integrity of their memory. The Holocaust deserves to be remembered. -- Norman Finkelstein
My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy. -- Jennifer Carpenter
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. -- William J. Brennan
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
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 Ellinwood Allen
In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge. -- Evan Osnos
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. -- Akio Toyoda
Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too. -- Robert Fitzgerald
There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness. -- Srikumar Rao
There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good. -- Steven Van Zandt
Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me. -- Richard H. Davis
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. -- Lee Atwater
People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with. -- Howard Rheingold
It is quite hard to relax in London. I always say I'd move somewhere quieter, but I am a bit of a confirmed urbanite now - it crept up on me without me noticing. I always think that I function quite well on my own, unusually so, but then I'm reminded how important people are to me. -- Laura Marling
One of the problems with any kind of talking about the media landscape is that we've just been through an unusually stable period in which, for fifty years, English language media was centered in three cities - London, New York, and Los Angeles - around a very stable group of people working in a relatively stable set of media. -- Clay Shirky
I don't see the point of doing an interview unless you're going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I'm extremely human and have done some dark things I don't think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I'd like to think it's the nice thing to do. -- Angelina Jolie
Philosophy is an unusually ingenious attempt to think fallaciously. -- Bertrand Russell
Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly. -- William James
I think Jared [Kushner] is an unusually polished person. -- Jared Kushner
Talent is some one faculty unusually developed; genius commands all the faculties. -- Frederic Henry Hedge
We are not interested in the unusual, but in the usual seen unusually. -- Beaumont Newhall
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification. -- Laurence Tribe
I'm inspired by Earl Sweatshirt. He's a really honest writer, and he's unusually intelligent. -- Erykah Badu
A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief. -- Thomas Jefferson
The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order. -- John Maynard Keynes
These are days of special perplexity and depression, and the path of public duty is unusually rugged. -- Grover Cleveland
How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart? -- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. -- Charles Caleb Colton
GE's businesses turned in a terrific first quarter. Our products and services are being well received in unusually robust global markets. -- Jack Welch
The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution. -- Anton Chekhov
Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach. -- E. W. Howe
Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. -- Henry David Thoreau
It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one's suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things. -- Ian C. Esslemont
[Moral responsibilities] has nothing particular to do with academia, except insofar as those within it tend to be unusually privileged in the respects just mentioned. -- Noam Chomsky
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Genealogy of American Finance is a treasure trove of information on American banking and its history, in an unusual -- and unusually useful -- format. -- John Steele Gordon
The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment. -- Mallory Ortberg
Any climate scientist will tell you that an unusually warm month - or even a whole warm winter - doesn't mean much. It's the long-term trend that counts. -- Corey Flintoff
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Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign. -- Simon Calder
I do not think of myself as unusually creative. I think we all come from the creator, each human being streaming with the glory. So each one of us is creative. -- Maya Angelou
The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is run by an unusually class-conscious, dedicated business class that has a very violent labor history, much worse than in Europe. -- Noam Chomsky
During the last 100 years cosmic rays became scarcer because unusually vigorous action by the Sun batted away many of them. Fewer cosmic rays meant fewer clouds - and a warmer world. -- Henrik Svensmark
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating on its single, pair or triplet of essential images. -- Minor White
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment. -- William J. Brennan
Watching, she had felt unusually and keenly alive, alive the way a knife is sharp, so that the humiliation she was enduring was perfect, like the paring of skin from a hard apple. -- Sonya Hartnett
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I'm to trade my life for Rose's, I'd appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair. -- Franny Billingsley
Local television shows do not, in general, supply make-up artists. The exception to this is Los Angeles, an unusually generous city in this regard, since they also provide this service for radio appearances. -- Fran Lebowitz
I campaigned for [Dennis] Kucinich in 2008. I continue to be in touch with him and I really admire him. I think he's very brave and honest - unusually so for a U.S. politician. -- Viggo Mortensen

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