Uncustomary Quotes & Sayings

For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit. — Noam Chomsky

He lay back on the blanket, pulling her with him. Every few minutes, one of them would lose an article of clothing, until there was nothing and yet everything between them. — Cindi Madsen

I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as the outside. Nobody's going to see it, but you know it's there. — Mindy Grossman

A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know. — Liezi

One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is alright. — J.G. Ballard

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural. — John Stuart Mill

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

I think it can be quite impossible to think well of yourself, so I prefer not to think about that too much. But I am very pleased, obviously. — Robert Sheckley

The connection has been lost between the country's direction, especially with regard to the way in which the economy has been run, and the citizen. — Michael D. Higgins

In the first of our conversations, you explained how different time was for you - how it's an abstraction. Some hours glide past like birds, others are slow, plodding behemoths, stubborn and unwilling to leave. — Fiddles McMonkeypants

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. — Charles Hodge

The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting. Everything I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it would always remain in the present. — Pablo Picasso

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. — Dean Acheson