When my expectations are exactly fulfilled, I feel that something uncanny has happened. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. — John Banville Copy Share Image
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm Copy Share Image
Children have an uncanny way of living up - or down - to what is expected of them. — Ann Landers Copy Share Image
Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem. — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
“If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
At present, I myself do not know of any local witches or warlocks, but there are several people who seem to have… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical… — Nicolaas Bloembergen Copy Share Image
People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally… — Charles Bernheimer Copy Share Image
People always talked about a mother's uncanny ability to read her children, but that was nothing compared to how children could read… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets.… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Sleeping people are so remote… Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Factual information alone isn't sufficient to guide you through life's labyrinthine tests. You need and deserve regular deliveries of uncanny revelation. One… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect,… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
At birth we begin to discover that shapes, sounds, lights, and textures have meaning. Long before we learn to talk, sounds and… — Nancy Newhall Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
It is a strange and wonderful fact to be here, walking around in a body, to have a whole world within you… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What are the Hanged Man’s powers?” I tried to remember more about that player. “I don’t know,” Aric admitted. “I’ve never faced… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Gerbert, by the window, shuddered; his mouth contorted. The witch began to twist faster and faster while her twin was talking to… — Marcus Speh Copy Share Image
“From the earliest days of man there has endured the conviction that there is an order of existence which is entirely strange… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.'… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
“We know this world intimately and that is its uncanniness. We cannot bear our knowledge.” — David Mura Copy Share Image
The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it. — Nick Drake Copy Share Image
Reading the Bible can be like meeting someone you don't know who, oddly, somehow seems to know you deeply. It's uncanny. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Cinder twisted up her lips. "Do you think it could have a virus?" "Maybe her programming was overwhelmed by Prince Kai's uncanny… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
![“Back at the Rash [a Florida nightclub], a waif in a lime latex body tube went into the rest room to snort the newest designer drug, XGB5, which gave people the uncanny sensation of throwing money away while chewing their own lips off. It was hard to come by and everyone had to have it.” quote by Tim Dorsey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1f6/tim-dorsey-12537_body_back-at-the-rash-a-florida-nightclub-a-w_2045019.jpg)
![“So he [Sigmund Freud] called this "the uncanny" and he also referred to cities as well, like the idea of walking through the city and the way the urban landscape could lead you to a sense of disorientation and to a kind of, you know, sense of repetition. And the way a city can unfold as you walk.” quote by DJ Spooky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/711/dj-spooky-8230_cities_so-he-sigmund-freud-called-this-the-unca_1409290.jpg)
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