{"quotes":[{"text":"When everything looks unusual around you, your eyes and your mind mostly need anything usual! Unfamiliar disturbs us; familiar comforts us! But for the wise man, unusual is more precious than the usual because it offers us a new way, a new vision, a new idea, a new world!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["familiar","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","precious","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","unfamiliar","unusual","usual"],"id":368,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.","author":"Lori R. Lopez","tags":["books","eccentric","humor","offbeat","quirky","rules","style","unconventional","unusual","writing"],"id":1007,"author_id":"Lori+R.+Lopez"},{"text":"Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["adapt","adaptation","face","faces","foreign","love","old","oldest","sacred","spiritual-love","strange","stranger","strangers","true-love","unusual","weird"],"id":16393,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...A burden.","author":"Craig Groeschel","tags":["a","always","aren-t","beautiful","because","better","bigger","blessing","blessings","burden","call","chosen","even","gifts","god","god-s","his","it","leaders","might","most","of","the","time","unusual","very","we","weird","with","you"],"id":18428,"author_id":"Craig+Groeschel"},{"text":"Today is an ephemeral ghost...A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not 'exist.'In mundane terms, it marks a 'leap' in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...A day of unlocked potential.Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["calendar","chance","days","ephemeral","february-29","fortune","ghost","ghost-day","leap","leap-day","leap-year","moment","moments","months","possibility","probability","quantum","qunatum-day","rare","second","seconds","temporal","temporary","time","unusual","years"],"id":58815,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that 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.","author":"L. Frank Baum","tags":["inspirational","random","unusual","weird"],"id":76524,"author_id":"L.+Frank+Baum"},{"text":"The Special Operations Network was instigated to handle policing duties considered either too unusual or too specialized to be tackled by the regular force. There were thirty departments in all, starting at the more mundane Neighborly Disputes (SO-30) and going onto Literary Detectives (SO-27) and Art Crime (SO-24). Anything below SO-20 was restricted information, although it was common knowledge that the ChronoGuard was SO-12 and Antiterrorism SO-9. It is rumored that SO-1 was the department that polices the SpecOps themselves. Quite what the others do is anyone's guess. What is known is that the individual operatives themselves are mostly ex-military or ex-police and slightly unbalanced. 'If you want to be a SpecOp,' the saying goes, 'act kinda weird...","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["antiterrorism","art","crime","detectives","literary","military","police","restricted","specialized","time-travel","unusual","weird"],"id":85917,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"She loved old things. The brown-brick place was a survivor of the 1907 earthquake and fire, and proudly bore a plaque from the historical society. The building had a haunted history- it was the site of a crime of passion- but Tess didn't mind. She'd never been superstitious.The apartment was filled with items she'd collected through the years, simply because she liked them or was intrigued by them. There was a balance between heirloom and kitsch. The common thread seemed to be that each object had a story, like a pottery jug with a bas-relief love story told in pictures, in which she'd found a note reading, 'Long may we run. -Gilbert.' Or the antique clock on the living room wall, each of its carved figures modeled after one of the clockmaker's twelve children. She favored the unusual, so long as it appeared to have been treasured by someone, once upon a time. Her mail spilled from an antique box containing a pigeon-racing counter with a brass plate engraved from a father to a son. She hung her huge handbag on a wrought iron finial from a town library that had burned and been rebuilt in a matter of weeks by an entire community.Other people's treasures captivated her. They always had, steeped in hidden history, bearing the nicks and gouges and fingerprints of previous owners. She'd probably developed the affinity from spending so much of her childhood in her grandmother's antique shop.","author":"Susan Wiggs","tags":["antiques","apartment","heirlooms","history","kitsch","tess-delaney","unusual"],"id":89147,"author_id":"Susan+Wiggs"},{"text":"Before you get bored of yourself try creativity in your life.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","bore","bored","boredom","boring","creative","creativity","different","eccentric","eccentricity","human","humans","innovation","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","life","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","unique","uniqueness","unusual","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":110389,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"If you want to be sure of unusual thing such as aliens or UFOs, then you have to think about it from an unusual way of thinking.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["alien","common-sense","mind","sense","ufo","unusual"],"id":112164,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}