# Quote — Nevil Shute, No Highway

> "A wiser man than I once said that an unusual man is apt to look unusual. In my department we seek for original thinkers, for the untiring brain that pursues its object by day and by night. If the untiring brain refuses to leave its quest to attend to such matters as the neat arrangement of collar and tie or to removing food stains from its waistcoat, I do not greatly complain."

- Author: [Nevil Shute](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute.md)
- Book: [No Highway](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway.md)
- Page: 205
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute#No_Highway_(1948)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/a-wiser-man

## More from this book

> "If you're going to make your life in a new country you should go before you're twenty-five. After that you start to get associations, little grooves and anchors, that make it difficult to change."

p. 214 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/if-youre-going.md)

> He was like a little boy let loose in a toy shop, uncertain which of the attractive treasures to pick up first.

p. 270 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/he-was-like.md)

> She did not understand what all that meant, but it was evidently something very near his heart, and so she said, "How splendid!"

p. 269 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/nevil-shute/no-highway/she-did-not.md)