Unusual Quotations | Page 7

It's those few unusual things that really tell you the story of the solar system.

It's the unusual leading man. Most of the Hollywood leading men are powerful and capable and strong, heroes. He has this vulnerability, he's fragile, he struggles to find a way to live from day to day that we can identify with, that we can understand.

It's one of the most unusual things I've heard of in years.

It's not that unusual in the context of Bill Wrigley taking over where there might be some unanticipated personality clash. Given the fact that there's no stated explanation, there might be some type of clash in philosophy or idea about strategy. It's a little sudden, for sure.

It's not unusual when you first start to see the beginnings of a rate increase, that the immediate effect is an acceleration of sales as people try to lock in the lower rates,

It's not unusual when a new chairman comes for there to be a number of vacancies at the top.

It's not unusual to spend $1,000 a month

It's not unusual to see significant snowfall in March.

Its not unusual to see middle school kids at high school parties. It's accepted. It's common.

It's not unusual to see donations pick up at the end of the year.

It's not unusual to see a rotation back into some of these traditional stocks.

It's not unusual to find Thai regulators with an allergy to responsibility, and the prospect of new legislation relating to alcohol is an available excuse to delay.

It's not unusual to catch 30- and 40-pound blue cats and quite often you'll catch them up to 70 to 80 pounds. The biggest one (Haynes' father-in-law) ever caught was 86 pounds.

It's not unusual that these tables are updated so infrequently. The effect now, however is that re-priced products may actually be more affordable now.

It's not unusual that movers and shakers, important people, are involved in lots of different organizations. The conflict of interest occurs whenever you are in one role and you let one of your secondary roles materially influence how you behave in that situation.

It's not unusual for us to change a game or start a new one. Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

It's not unusual for two audits of two organizations to be completed at different times.

It's not unusual for tires to experience some cosmetic cracking, and that is what we initially saw in this situation, ... As it became apparent that this was a unique circumstance, we decided a recall was the best course of action. With the design specification change, we believe we have taken the necessary steps to make sure this issue has been resolved.

It's not unusual for there to be several continuances in a case like this. I'm surprised that the case has moved this quickly to the circuit court.

It's not unusual for the FBI to contact us ... It's pretty routine.

It's not unusual for songs to be like that,

It's not unusual for some states to be doing three or four searches at the same time.

It's not unusual for someone in their line of work, someone involved in a criminal enterprise. You can buy those items on the black market or in other places.

It's not unusual for people with his background to be involved in some areas that are controversial. We're bringing them in in groups of 25 and 30.

It's not unusual for people to self-rescue themselves. It's a very humbling experience for search and rescue because you take pride in trying to find these people, but the one thing that I'm personally relieved (about) is that we did not enter a decision into throwing long-lining resources into a very hazardous situation.

It's not unusual for people to put weird things in the alley, ... We never know what we're going to find, but this looked scary.

It's not unusual for party building ads to feature a prominent member of the party.

It's not unusual for partners to compete, ... We've had a long relationship with CNOOC ... we expect that to continue.

It?s not unusual for officers to have their gun out, just to have it.

It's not unusual for me to wake up in the middle of the night and not know where I am. I take sleep medication to deal with all the flights. But I find it helps to eat at the same time every day.

It's not unusual for less than 10 percent of studies to meet our standards of quality.

It's not unusual for counties to turn in results that late.

It's not unusual for a transaction of the magnitude of ours to move to a second phase.

It's not unusual for artists to request an audit of their record label accounts from time to time. Sometimes there are differences of opinion, especially when the record contracts are complex, and there may be issues of contractual interpretation.

It's not unusual for a person with a very respectable job to be caught up in Internet crimes against children. We've had cases of police officers, clergy, teachers, youth leaders, doctors ? people from all walks of life ? who have been arrested on similar charges. Predators don't necessarily look and act any different from the rest of us, which is why kids need to be very careful.

It's not unusual for a number of private institutions to be going through budget difficulties.

It's not unusual for a decision of this magnitude to lag by a few months.

It's not unusual for a customer to request a change here or a change there as the piece comes to life.

It's not unusual at all to go to any major college in the country and every offensive linemen will have knee braces on both knees, ... They've been wearing them for years and years.

It's not unusual at all. Once you get into later February and early March, the yo-yo is the norm rather than the exception. You have cold air fighting warm air, and you get the yo-yo effect.

It's not unheard of to wait for a news peg. It's not unusual to discover the existence of something and not know the context of it until later.

It's the most unusual contract I've ever done. He said, 'Look, I'm not going to need a lawyer. It's just going to be me and you.' He cooked dinner for me. He was a good cook, actually.

It is very unusual in this day and time to find a teen ... no, to find anyone who is that involved in volunteering their time. He is an outstanding young man.

It is very unusual for illegal copies of a movie to be made before the film's premier.

It is very unusual for a suspect to come in, march right through he doors brandishing a handgun and order everyone to the ground. That's what we call a takeover robbery, where he takes control of everything going on within the four walls of the bank, take his cash and flee.

It is very unusual for a jury to be out nine days without it being a mistrial. You reach a stage in really long deliberations where it becomes coercive for the minority.

It's always a bit difficult to read the economic data in the winter, just because activity is thinner, and the vagaries of weather are more pronounced. So it's not unusual to see, although this is an extraordinary amount of volatility.

It's given us an opportunity to play golf 12 months out of the year, which is unusual for northern Indiana. It's the mainstay of our winter operation.

It's historically not at all unusual for someone to come from outside the court and to be junior to many people already on the court to be nominated directly to be chief justice.

It's highly unusual when a company combines two share classes into one.

It's highly unusual - the Department of Justice is usually very protective.

It's highly unusual. ... It's unusual for us to see a car wreck be classified as a murder,

It's highly unusual for this kind of dispute about the inner workings of any appellate court to become public, as it has here.

It's been a highly unusual off-season and it would be difficult to legislate against.

It's been an unusual year for Kentucky's labor market. Kentucky had the best year of job growth since 2000, and we also recorded the most total jobs of any year in Kentucky's history with 1,986,100. But, the state's annual unemployment rate went up 0.6 percentage points from 2004 to 2005. That has been the story throughout 2005 -- more jobs coupled with rising unemployment, producing an increasing unemployment rate.

It's been a very unusual year for us. At the end of next season, Evangeline Downs will have completed 22 straight months of racing - no other track in the state has done this.

It's been an unusual year. We've had some injuries, so our lineup has changed every tournament this spring. We still haven't played our best five guys yet.

It's routine practice. There's nothing unique or unusual about it.

It's really difficult to figure out what coverage they are playing. They are very multiple and unusual with what they play.

It's quite unusual to take a land deal such as this, with all of its unique characteristics and close it so quickly.

It's quite unusual for people to contribute to mental illness organizations because, I think, there's still a stigma attached to the illness.

It?s quite unusual for a judge to do that.

It's probably the most fantastic, unusual promotion I've seen at a casino.

It's pretty obvious that, on the surface, they have a hard argument to make that all of this was reasonably necessary. You've got two unusual facts: Someone convicted of a sex offense was assigned to this, and the second is that the amount of money it took (to investigate) was the absolute maximum.

It's probably just one group of guys came of age together where their contracts expired or reached a point where they were all available at the same time. It's a little unusual to have that many marquee guys available. I don't think it was any design or plan. It's unusual to have that caliber available right now.

It's pretty unusual for us to see temperatures this warm for this extended period of time. We don't see that very often.

It's pretty unusual for Congress to revisit something passed by a prior Congress.

It's unusual to see this kind of defense in high school and even if a team comes up with a concept of how to attack it, it still can throw you off. We trap the ball and because of our height and speed we can cover the passing lanes.

It's unusual to see freezing weather in March.

It's unusual to play a team like that this early (in the tournament). I think it helps us and gives us more confidence. They had the best (regular season) record in the NCAA this year.

It's unusual to have such correspondence between two such great 20th century figures.

It's unusual to have a number of groups responding so quickly just for an application. I think that it reflects how troubled the legal community is by the county court's decision.

It's unusual to be that accommodating. But it's kind of balanced by the goodwill consideration of bringing a key (tourism) destination to town.

It's unusual to be successful at it that early in a career, ... A lot of people have (leadership PACs). A lot of them sit and don't do anything.

It's unusual for us to host an exhibit that's been on loan.

It's unusual for someone to lose this much money and this many contracts so quickly.

It's unusual for someone to commit that many crimes in that short period of time.

It's unusual for a project of this scope not to maintain communication and contact.

It's unusual for a guy not to play except for his senior year, ... No one really knew about him. I think we maybe found out sometime in October or November that year. It came right down to the end. We had to evaluate him based on six or seven games his senior year.

Darius has a high, gorgeous voice. He's also handsome and young. With that all going on, one day Darius will be a big star. When the idea of an evening dedicated to Stevie Wonder was first proposed, however, my reaction was skeptical at best. But then Darius performed the program at New York's Lincoln Center and got raves. Typically, we seek out and develop unique programs, nothing that anyone has ever heard before, so the Steve Wonder program is unusual for Moab. Had it been performed more than once, we probably would not have considered it.

Dad does get the most unusual Christmas cards from the penitentiary.

Domestically, I think we spent the most amount of time talking about what do we do with the surplus, which is an unusual situation for us, to be able to have a good debate about the surplus,

The observation of strange or interesting patterns is not nearly as unusual as people think.

The numbers don't lie. It's an unusual and difficult feat.

That proves you are unusual, returned the Scarecrow; and I am convinced the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

It's something that we're still looking at, whether this was a blast in Vancouver or North Vancouver construction, it's sort of an unusual time.

It's so unusual the way it's growing like that.

It's not a normal voice. It doesn't fit into people's preconceptions about what a woman's voice should sound like. My mom doesn't think I have an unusual voice, though. I'm sure it's helped me get some roles. But Chasing Amy, I almost didn't get. There was concern the voice would grate on some people - which some critics said it did.

Everyone feels pressure, it's how you deal with it that's important. It's very unusual for Aussie teams to have a losing streak like this, so you want to snap out of it.

The basic ambulance design has been around with few changes since the 1970s. It's unusual that a community like Winter Park would take this bold step. They haven't had a catastrophic event, and they have relatively short ambulance trips. This is very progressive.

The baseball gods are showing me a little bit of everything this year, and that was one of the more unusual (plays). I'm still positive about these guys. . . . But it just boils down to learning how to play winning baseball.

The ball is kind of Velcro-ed to her foot whether she's going 90 mph or 10 mph. The one thing about Jess that's so unusual is she can create things on her own. She's unusual because you don't really see somebody who is able to slice, dice and dash and take players apart individually.

The attraction is that there must be interesting and possibly sad stories behind these place names, many of which were given by early European settlers. Unfortunately, a lot of the more unusual names were for places that are just too tiny to feature in the atlas.

Theatre Nohgaku is an unusual theatre company in that our members are spread throughout North America and Japan, ... What draws us together is our love of Noh, which we feel is one of the most beautiful and powerful theater forms in the world.... The idea (here) is to give the school and Winston-Salem as much exposure to Noh as we can.

That is not an unusual event. She goes to the bar, has one drink and tells Clark to go now or find another ride home.

That is very unusual because, in effect, if you freeze or seize the account, you're stopping the campaign and most prosecutors won't do that without very good cause.

It's certainly very unusual to have even retired military officers being this public about their opposition. But I don't think it's improper at all. They've been careful not to violate the core tenet of civilian control - none of them has said these things publicly while on active duty.

It's conceivable that the D.A. could find that there is not enough evidence. It would be unusual, but this is an unusual case.

It's clear that there's a consensus that the university should be relieved of the day-to-day responsibility for maintaining the water supply and distribution. It's rather unusual that a university would have to run this.

It's certainly an unusual decision from that standpoint.