Unnatural Quotations

It's not a natural translation, transition, to take something from stage to screen. Onstage your action is communicated through the spoken word primarily, and on screen it's communicated through pictures. So it's always been kind of unnatural to take something that lives on the stage and turn it into moving pictures.

I became the unnatural son of a few score of beaten men.

I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.

The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

Co-writing is a very unnatural feeling. It's like wanting to document a feeling that you have and then trying to get someone else to describe it for you.

Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural.

To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

The educator wants the child to be finished at once and perfect. He forces upon the child an unnatural degree of self-mastery, a devotion to duty, a sense of honour - habits that adults get out of with astonishing rapidity.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

At times there is nothing so unnatural as nature.

There is nothing more unnatural to religion than contentions about it.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. One who does the work ordained by one's inherent nature incurs no sin.

One's inferior natural work is better than superior unnatural work. Death in carrying out one's natural work is useful. Unnatural work produces too much stress.

Mutants have always been dear to the heart of Devo. One of our earliest influences was the original Island of Lost Souls , ... The whole thing was frightening and unnatural and disturbing.

I feel like it's the most unnatural thing for two humans, especially of the opposite sex, to live in harmony under one roof. You realize how different men and women are.

I always seem to find myself fighting the law of equilibrium - the great leveling force that brings things to the mean and takes the 'cartoonishness' out of life. Perhaps I am doing a very unnatural thing... If Einstein were still alive I would ask him about it.

J was open to our style from the get-go. They weren't expecting us to do something that was unnatural for us.

My mind became agitated with the enquiry - why a nation, separated from us by an ocean more than three thousand miles in extent, should endeavor to enforce on us plans of subjugation, the most unnatural in themselves, unjust, inhuman in their operations, and unpractised even by the uncivilized savages of the wilderness?

The point that has to be made is that national disasters are, in the aggregate, predictable, and we can budget for them, ... Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disasters in America.

With a few exceptions, birds are not to be trusted; it is not normal to have such soft, vulnerable bodies bookended with slashing beaks and razor-sharp claws. It is as unnatural as an armed marshmallow.

We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and working out how to live with it.

Commercials are an unnatural use of my work, ... It's like having a cow's udder sewn to the side of my face. Painful and humiliating.

There's something really unnatural about losing a child, and there's something unnatural about having to write an elegy for your child, but I felt that I wanted people to know what he was like.

Now happily married to Irene for over ten years, we clearly told the interviewer how homosexuality is a dangerous, destructive and unnatural lifestyle... how no one is born "gay"... yet a behavior that can and should be permanently changed.

Auditioning is such an unnatural thing. You're in a tiny little room with, like, seven people cramped together, acting to a casting director; just, none of it makes any sense.

A soldier is a man whose business it is to kill those who never offended him, and who are the innocent martyrs of other men's iniquities. Whatever may become of the abstract question of the justifiableness of war, it seems impossible that the soldier should not be a depraved and unnatural thing.

This is to advance stem cell science and medicine, not to make dogs by this unnatural method.

It's a very unnatural environment to be in, up on a stage. So you put up defenses to hide. Like looking at the ground with your hair in your eyes, or being tightly wound and quite aggressive and uncooperative, as I used to do.

It's an unnatural act for consenting (city and county officials) to work together. It's an ambitious plan, but what social wrongs in our society have been rectified without an ambitious plan?

It's got quite a bit of damage around its head area and is flexing in an unnatural manner.

It's unnatural to think that in the past that everyone was equally strong in the compulsory, free and original dance. ... I'm proud to be part of this generation of ice dancing.

It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.

It's such a crazy unnatural situation, where you have this insane amount of activity. They innately know the places to find food is where there's activity.

I have never met a man who could cope with me - who I am, the Presley name. I was always the dominant one in any relationship, and it's unnatural for the woman to be the ... breadwinner ... Which is why I ended up marrying someone even more famous than myself.

I just got sick to my stomach because these clouds were unnatural and that meant they had (the machine) on all the time, ... I was left trying to forecast the intent of some organization rather than the weather of this planet.

If you rush the healing and rehab, the body won't heal correctly and you will end up with more problems than you started with. Coming back too quickly, you could retrain your brain to move in an unnatural way compensating for weak muscles (such as a limp or favoring a leg).

I just have this unnatural fascination with Elvis. I guess it reminds me of how important perspective is. You know, watch out or you might wind up wearing really silly costumes with Hawaiian leis.

The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Exercise is an unnatural act.

The members would meet in private and public places and indulge in unnatural acts.

Nature is actually unnatural

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

I want to perform an unnatural act.

I have not wept since the death of my parents," said Luxa quietly. "But I am thought to be unnatural in this respect.

Nothing is unnatural - just untried.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite

Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.

In being wildly natural we recover best from being unnatural, from being spiritual.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.

No religion is better than an unnatural one.