Unnatural Quotes

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.

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

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.

Assuming that man has a distinct spiritual nature, a soul, why should it be thought unnatural that under appropriate conditions of maladjustment, his soul might die before his body does; or that his soul might die without his knowing it?

On TV, the children can watch people murdering each other, which is a very unnatural thing, but they can't watch two people in the very natural process of making love. Now, really, that doesn't make any sense, does it?

The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.

Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

When on the set of a film, you have to play natural for entire scenes in a very unnatural environment. You have to express emotions and interact with other actors and also use your voice.

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.

Collaboration on a book is the ultimate unnatural act.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.

The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.

There are a lot of times that if a detail in a scene or a beat, feels unnatural, they'll allow me to explore another direction to go until we're all comfortable with what we are doing.

Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

We weren't built to fly. We can do it, but we shouldn't be surprised if it feels a little unnatural.

Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.

Though I acted in hundreds of productions, appeared at the Guthrie Theatre and on Broadway in Amadeus, I discovered in my thirties that I didn't really like stage acting. The presence of the audience, the eight shows a week and the possibility of a long run were all unnatural to me.