Quotes about freakish (13 Quotes)




    The freakish is no longer a private zone, difficult of access. People who are bizarre, in sexual disgrace, emotionally violent are seen daily on the newsstands, on TV, in the subways.

    Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

    Jamming him Johnson at the line, trying to tackle him, trying to run with him, it's all difficult. When you face a receiver who is 230 pounds, that's just freakish. Coming out of college, I always worried about Terrell Owens and how big he was. But I face this guy every day and he runs the same speed as me. It's crazy.


    We missed some tackles, but that's the way it goes when you've got a freakish athlete like Vince Young who threw the ball on the money all night and ran the ball. He's so big and strong, and yet he's as fast as a running back. It's tough to prepare for that and tough to stop that.


    When you've got a freakish athlete like Vince Young who threw the ball on the money all night, ran the ball and pretty much was their whole offense, it's tough to tackle a guy like that.

    There should be a compromise between having good, clean teeth for television and not looking freakish. But they take it to an extreme.

    Who knows what can happen I watched a lot of (Texas') games during the season, and Vince is just a freakish athlete. He's big and fast, and those are hard to find. He showed what he's capable of doing. I think highly of him and wish him all the best.

    It's unbelievably freakish. It's an absolute tragedy. You're always worried about getting into a bike wreck, about getting hit by a car, but nobody would think about a tree falling on you. That's the last thing you would think of.

    The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

    There was virtually no protection from the blast, ... The very flatness of the city center helped seal its destruction. The lack of any warning also contributed Nobody was in the shelters when the bomb exploded. The whole city was taken by surprise. Only freakish accidents of fate ensured survival. Eizo Nomura was one such survivor, a clerk in the Fuel Distribution and Control Cooperative, a concrete building 100 meters from the hypocenter. Moments before the explosion, he had gone down into the basement to retrieve a document his chief had forgotten. Quite possibly he was the closest man to the hypocenter to survive.



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