Unlikely Quotes (page 2)

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• fictional
• explained
• itself

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself. Mason Cooley

• images
• together
• metaphorical

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together. Thomas Harrison

• writing
• energy
• country

Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers. Barack Obama

• mistake
• admittedly
• unlike

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. Nelson Mandela

• business
• perfect
• busy

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. Lewis H. Lapham

• responsibility
• hard
• government

Unlike despotisms, modern democracies are not supposed promiscuously to accumulate property and then charge their taxpayers to maintain it. But that is what they do. Governments are always trying to extend their responsibilities and their estates, and it is very hard for parliaments to reign them in. James Buchan

• art
• destroyed
• productions

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows. Les Brown

• peace
• achievement
• christianity

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword. Steven Runciman

• history
• today
• modernize

Unlike any other leader in modern American history, we are led today by a president that has decided to pit Americans against each other. Marco Rubio

• personality
• camera
• personal

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right. Wayne Rooney

• saying
• job
• life

Unlike life, you've got more or less complete control over what's going on in your stories. That's not to say you can make characters do whatever you want them to - they usually have a life of their own if you've done your job properly. Paul Kane

• images
• painting
• drawing

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does. John Berger

• food
• heart
• cancer

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food. Mario Batali

• art
• world
• renewal

Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art. Georg Baselitz

• short
• kids
• play

Unlike me, a lot of child actors are very short, which is why they work. So when they're 15 they can play 11 or when they're 18 they can play 14. They look young for so long, they have abilities a much younger kid wouldn't have. Cynthia Nixon