Uncustomary Quotes

#1. So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

John Stuart Mill

#2. Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we be able to recognize what is customary and, more importantly, to change it. Such is the impulse behind our conversation with the vampryoteuthis

Vilem Flusser

#3. Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

Barbara Deming

#4. None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

#5. I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing.

George Lucas

#7. The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Gavin Newsom

#8. There was no way she was staying trapped with tea at a time like this.

Gail Carriger

#9. It's not about being rich, but everyone back home has a pool. And I was a total water baby. My mom couldn't get me out - she'd put my dinner plate at the end of the pool, and I'd eat my meals in the water.

Margot Robbie

#10. When the boat is waiting for you, when the rows are waiting for you, when the calm sea is waiting for you, when the sun is waiting for you, when everything is ready to help you to move forward, be there or those who wait will go away!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#11. Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

Arthur Golden

#12. They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't have to be true. And the first step is imaging.

Gloria Steinem

#13. Unbeknownst to most American investors, significant portions of their public pension, mutual fund, life insurance and private portfolios are comprised of stocks of privately held companies that partner with state sponsors of terror.

Frank Gaffney

#14. I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and
and rational argument.

Barack Obama

#15. You're in a fight and have to dig down ... I find peace in that and enjoy it.

Dustin Poirier

#16. Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

Henrik Ibsen

#17. I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

John Caudwell